Global Journal of Management and Business Research, G: Interdisciplinary, Volume 23 Issue 1

Mass Migration of Students: Analysis of the Geopolitical and Social Contexts of Origins Elsa Del Rosario Pech Ceballos Author: PhD in Regional Development, Secretary of Public Education of Mexico. e-mail: pech.ceballos.e@gmail.com Abstract- State and international migratory routes toward the state of Yucatan have expanded exponentially, due to its well- known level of social welfare within Mexican territory. The study of quiet, peaceful environments, appropriate for human development, quite underestimated in the industrialized era, has been insufficient. This state has produced a significant proportion of mass, national, and international migrant populations looking for permanent settlement in other places. Therefore, this study was done during the 2019-2020 school year among secondary students immersed in the migratory phenomenon. The geopolitical and social contexts of origins are analyzed to determine their degree of influence on the possible causal variables of social constructions. It also looks at the imaginaries of migrant students and the multifaceted, volatile behaviors that may lead to ethical dilemmas, caused by audaciousness, among the majority of indigenous adolescents. For this study, we used a non-probabilistic sample at several school divisions, as well as the observation of participants through the application of the focus survey technique and content analysis. Keywords: mass student migration, migrant student adolescents, cultural imaginaries. I. I ntroduction everal theories explain the causal variables of standard migration and the families that choose to leave their native countries to settle in other areas, looking to improve their economic situation. However, according to the various currents in favor or against them, these causal variables seem to deviate toward other aspects, such as the improvement of life standards that may be generated, as well as the problems arising from reaching other countries or locations already dealing with mass conglomerations. However, there are very few focus studies on micro- social organizations, whose behaviors are reconstructed from patterns that influence the sum of all individual behaviors, which lead to the development of different personalities in direct opposition to the values and beliefs of human agency. In this study, we attempt to not only learn about migration experiences but also to emphasize the various geopolitical and social facets of mass migration flows of adolescent migrants that become trapped in it and reproduce this social behavior later on in life. When the first study on secondary migrant students in Yucatan was done, there was relatively little literature available on the subject. Therefore, we suggested developing a theoretical framework that would lend support to the study. The most important question we needed to find the answer to was that of the existence of so many contradictions (Pech, 2011: 407). The results were encouraging but led to further analysis of the subject. A second study was done using proxemics (Pech, 2012:75), which served to establish the importance of gentle contexts and affable sociocultural interaction for the rational upbringing of human groups during the developmental stage. This third study attempts to establish a relationship between the socio-cultural, and political structure in which migrant students develop and the formation of their individual imaginaries and personal interpretations to understand the causal variables of this mass student migration phenomenon. We selected a bibliography on contemporary student migration in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, four Latin American countries that have undergone mass migration from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The purpose is to understand the situation of migrants living under these affective-political conditions and to interpret the phenomenon of geographical uprooting determined by the person or persons responsible for the decision-making process in providing support during the upbringing and development process of the new generations of national and international mass migrants. We also considered it important to focus our theoretical framework on current studies on school migration and the theories of social welfare that are important to encourage economic, cultural, and ethical growth among current and future generations. The above comes to mind because every country looking for holistic improvement must have a visionary view of what it means to have cultured, well-educated, physically healthy, and mentally sustainable populations in the future. Thus, it is important to ensure a type of social welfare that leads to individuals' healthy expression of emotions, from the perspective of critical geopolitics (Verduzco, 2012: 40). II. S tudies on M igrant S tudents Research on student migration in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Antigua and Barbuda was done between the years 2009 and 2011 by the Organization of American States (OAS, 2009. 2010, 2011). Entitled S 7 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXIII Issue I Version I Year 2023 ( )G © 2023 Global Journals