Temporary Migrant Programs (TMP) are constantly changing, always trying to avoid immigration (i.e. permanent immigration) and its social implications by focusing on the return; while at the same time they foster the idea of migration as a career choice that can help TMW and their sending countries to escape from underdevelopment. At the individual level, temporary migration may begin as a safety valve (Ellerman, 2005); however, within time it may become a way of life for those who take the risk of going abroad to work. In my study I found that Mexican Temporary Migrant Workers (MTMW) can choose migration as a way of life, in part, because of the existence of Temporary Migrant Programs (TMP), as the Seasonal Workers Agricultural Program (SWAP), that address the aspect of temporality by design. I believe that in many cases MTMW have taken advantage of SAWP’s meritocratic system to make a difference that impacts the lives of their families. They invest their labour and human capital in the receiving country and the revenues are invested in their home communities, with their families (in Mexico). Thus, it may be true that the development of their home countries and communities is not a consequence of temporary migration, but MTAW are standing up for their right to be agents of change with the important contribution of economic remittances (a common, or the most typical transnational practice of international migrants), social remittances (i.e. different kinds of social practices, ideas and values that are part of migration), technological remittances (i.e. technical knowledge and skills acquired in the host country) and political remittances (i.e. identities associated to migration) (Goldring, 2004). All these have positive economic and developmental effects on the community (Basok, 2003), and social repercussions for the family and the community in Mexico, as my participants showed to me in my visit to their homes in Mexico.