Video series

QSM Explica

Mini-documentaries about Mexico, nationality and what it means to be Mexican. About ten minutes each, with sources, and a question we don't answer for you.

Episodes

The QSM Explica presenter next to the text “¿Mexicanos de segunda? 191 perdieron la nacionalidad” (Second-class Mexicans? 191 lost their nationality).
Episode 1 9:58

¿Mexicanos de segunda?

Second-class Mexicans?

What changes when you are Mexican by naturalization

Between 2020 and 2024, 191 people lost their Mexican nationality for living abroad for five continuous years. That cannot happen to a Mexican by birth: the Constitution forbids it. Julián Quiñones scored the first goal of the 2026 World Cup and is Mexican by naturalization, so by law he cannot even be a polling-station official. Are there first- and second-class Mexicans?

Chapters

Chapter titles are as they appear in the video.

  1. 0:00¿Mexicanos de segunda?
  2. 0:56Dos vecinas
  3. 2:00Lo que no puedes ser
  4. 3:21¿Por qué?
  5. 3:54Una nacionalidad que se puede perder
  6. 5:23Una puerta que se abrió de un solo lado
  7. 6:26¿Nos aceptan?
  8. 8:20¿Y afuera?
  9. 9:06¿Debería cambiar?
Image credits and licences

Videos de archivo: Pexels (licencia Pexels).

Tipografías: Anton, Archivo y Lora (SIL Open Font License)

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