A pocos kilómetros, pero en otro país. El retiro de jubilados estadounidenses en Baja California, México

Abstract

Mexico has become the Latin American country which receives the largest number of retired people coming from the USA. This group of immigrants has spread to several places in the country, but an important community is located in the border area (in the corridor ‘Ensenada-Tijuana’, state of Baja California). This article seeks to know the reasons that affect the residential relocation of retirees moving to this area of Mexico, and is based on the completion of 29 in deep-interviews. The results suggest that environmental and socioeconomic factors mainly determine the changes; in particular, the good climate, the differences in prices and living standards between both countries promote the residential mobility of this group of people; other reasons such as the proximity and the development of a particular cultural and linguistic environment are also important.