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Item Between Borders: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Fronterizo Migration from Mexico to the United States, 1965-2007(2019-04-12) Rendon-Ramos, Erika R; Lopez-Alonso, Moramay“Between Borders” studies transnationalism and explores how the migration experience is diversified based on place of origin and destination—specifically as it relates to the U.S. – Mexico Border. I consider two types of migration: a traditional movement from Mexico to Dallas, Texas and a borderland movement from Matamoros, Tamaulipas to Brownsville, Texas. My research derives from the lived experience of migrants, making oral history a key component of my dissertation. I question the relation between geography, immigrant identity and the ability to remain bicultural after years in the United States. I conclude that geography, namely one's distance from the border, dictates one's immigration experience, and is at the root of why persons who are in a continual state of movement in the borderlands are able to remain intimately tied to both countries.