DescriptionFuture consideration in the form of plans, hopes, projects and dreams is a constitutive feature of the life of Mexican migrants and their families. This study seeks to understand this engagement with the future of transnational actors—of those that move around and those who stay. The study explores the ways in which this future consideration plays out in people’s everyday transnational living and, accordingly, how people’s future-oriented thinking is factored in transnational dynamics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with families from a mountain-town in Oaxaca, Mexico with recent migrant ties to central New Jersey, this study explores the interplay of future-related processes of thought with people’s practices and the contexts of their transnational movement. My analytical focus is on three interrelated elements: a) the socio-cultural processes that the imagining of the future results from, b) the form and process of consideration of future scenarios and, c) the forms of behaviors and experiences this future consideration creates. The analysis first addresses the ways in which the processes of future consideration in this town are responsive to transnational migratory dynamics. Second, drawing from research in the cognitive sciences, I elaborate on the subjective mental processes through which social actors create images of the future. I argue that future-scenario building is an outcome of reflexive processes that occur in conversation with context and biographical history, and in relation to people’s interactions with others. Third, I show the ways in which the puzzles of transnational everyday living pose challenges for social actors’ future scenario building, exploring the ways that transnational actors conceptualize the future are consequential for strategic action. By examining these issues, this study proposes innovations to current migration scholarship, making subjective processes a central analytical focus in migration research. My findings suggest that the cognitive and emotional engagements with the future of transnational actors and the ways in which the modalities of this engagement take place produce subjectivity and action in their present. At the level of general social theory, this study addresses the projective capacity of human action and its relation to social and relational context.