International migration: survival strategies and peasant identity in san Felipe Teotlalcingo, Puebla, México
Abstract
Applying neoliberal policies, and globalizing processes, have had
important effects on rural communities in México. One of these
is the increase in migration to the U.S.A., phenomenon which
is reshaping the daily life of Mexican peasants in a relevant
manner, and specifically that of peasants in the state of Puebla.
This document tackles, from a qualitative perspective, the ways
in which international migration reconfigures and strengthens
the identity of inhabitants in San Felipe Teotlalcingo, Puebla. In
addition, the manner in which this migration becomes a strategy
for material, social, and cultural survival of peasants in this
locality, is exposed. Ethnography of the place was elaborated,
and in-depth interviews were carried out with 25 peasants with
migratory experience towards the U.S.A. The objective of
the research was to describe and interpret the ways in which
peasants’ identity in a rural community is reconfigured after
migrating. This identity is strengthened, with the result of
peasants becoming more participative and independent subjects,
from the political and economic point of view.
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