<p>In this article, a content analysis of the discursive plots immersed in the migratory culture is carried out, specifically those words involved in the return to Mexico of nationals over 60 years of age who lived in the United States. The data was taken from interviews with 13 men and 12 women from Durango (Mexico) - chosen through an intentional sample - who lived and / or worked in the neighbouring country, and who had return experience in any of its modalities ( definitive, temporary, rest, forced). In the treatment of the information, a linguistic and semantic analysis was carried out, which at first was quantitative, by taking up the frequencies of words whose repetition was significant. Next, fragments were extracted in which a lexicographical revision was used that will represent facts, ideas and important ambivalences for the elderly. Among the main results, it is noted that there are archetypes that encompass the following dimensions: space (territoriality); concrete actions that the subject performs (or thinks) (verbal morphemes); and, the significant agents (relationship with others), whose words represent the mechanisms of tension of the political and power structures in which both migration and the return to the communities of origin of the subjects are experienced. It is concluded that the State has an ethical obligation to promote political actions to favour the exercise of human rights of returnees.</p>