Abstract

This article proposes to review, in the light of the concept of cross-border, some categories that are usual within migration studies -such as transnational, transnational space and transnational migration, post-national citizenship, and circular migration- starting from the strategies of adaptation of a minoritarian community of immigrants in a region shaped by one of the most crossed/patrolled international borders. Through the application of semi-structured interviews, the experiences are analized of 20 Argentine women and men living in Diego and Tijuana, on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Respondents demonstrate both knowing and practising this region's cross-border lifestyle, assigning meanings to the act of crossing the border, and displaying identity negotiations between their culture of origin and the cultures of incorporation around four nodes: work, family, social relations, and customs.