International migrations in the framework of the Mexican agro crisis. The case of a peasant locality from Ciapas [Migraciones internacionales en el marco de las crisis del agro Mexicano. El caso de una localidad campesina Chiapaneca]

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Volume 15, Issue 38, 2018, Pages 293-317

International migrations in the framework of the Mexican agro crisis. The case of a peasant locality from Ciapas [Migraciones internacionales en el marco de las crisis del agro Mexicano. El caso de una localidad campesina Chiapaneca] (Article) (Open Access)

Ramírez G.C.*

^a Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Abstract

In the context of the neoliberal policies and the economic crises, this work, inside the frame of the studies about the migration to the United States and through historical and ethnographic data, researches, since a qualitative perspective, the recently peasant migration from Las Margaritas, México, to the US (1996-2008). After the description of the origin places and the socioeconomic situation, this article delineated the emergence and characterization of this migration as a strategy to face the economic and material scarcity. The contribution of this work is that describes how the migration is based upon communitarian links and relationships, showing that the migrants are social subjects with agency that use their social relationships and knowledge. © 2018, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Migration Migrants Social subjects Rural settlements Peasants

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057460928&doi=10.29092%2fuacm.v15i38.661&partnerID=40&md5=1fa054504975f35f8f7e3d16e011b578

DOI: 10.29092/uacm.v15i38.661

ISSN: 18700063

Original Language: Spanish