Introduction: yes, there are Mexicans in Alaska -- Tracing Mexican Alaska -- The annual migration of the traveling swallows: shared experiences of mobility across North America -- "My grandfather worked here": three generations of the Bravo family in Alaska and Michoacan -- "You have to get used to it": living the North American dream -- The stuff of transnational life: suitcases full of mole, t-shirts, roosters, and other things that move -- "It freezes the people together": producing a Mexican Alaska -- Conclusion: freedom to move.