Maria Regina Martínez Casas is Full Professor at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico. She is member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Martínez-Casas has been a guest researcher in many national and international institutions including Cambridge University, the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, and Princeton University. She is particularly interested in linguistic development; cultural validity of linguistic and educative policies; and indigenous migration and its consequences in the development of identities, education, discrimination, and inequalities in Mexico and Latin America from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.

Magdalena Barros Nock is Full Professor at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico. Her research focuses on topics such as mixed status families, children and young migrants, migration policies, gender and violence, indigenous migrants, DACAmented, and deportations. She is interested in the migration of Mexicans to the United States and, more recently, of Central Americans' transit and their settlements.

Georgina Rojas García has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a researcher at CIESAS in Mexico City and a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Her research topics include economic restructuring and the job market, remunerated domestic work, and international migration and jobs.