“Thanks to the CLACS Summer Travel Fellowship, for 15 days during August 2013, I was able to observe social settings and talk to people familiar with the international migration phenomenon and public officials in communities of origin in Mexico City, and the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala (approximately 5 days in each location). During this time, my main objective was to identify communities of origin and start a conversation with individuals knowledgeable or directly associated with New York-bound migratory flows during the past two decades. The places I saw and the persons I met offered me very valuable material and connections to continue developing my dissertation/research project on the social incorporation of Mexican irregular families in New York City and in other U.S. urban areas.”