Starting in the 1990s, social scientists began to pay attention to the possible impacts on family life in Mexican households and communities of origin caused by international migratory flows to the United States (Ariza 2007, Hondagneu-Sotelo 2003, Parrado 2004). This article reviews discussions concerning the transformative (or nontransformative) role that migration plays in family dynamics in the home and in communities of origin in Mexico. Because one of the principal changes has to do with female migration, this article emphasizes the situation of migrants from a gendered perspective (Hondagneu-Sotelo 2003, 2007).