Suchergebnisse

El sueño del metate: la negociación de poderes entre suegras y nueras

San Pablito Pahuatlán, an Otomí village known for its intensive production of amate paper, is at the center of a migratory corridor extending from southeastern Hidalgo to the northwestern part of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. The migration of San Pablito inhabitants first to southern Texas and then to North Carolina can be seen as a response to two local processes—the regional crisis of coffee production and the contraction of the labor market in the metropolitan area of Mexico City—and to the transnationalization of labor markets through the migration of Mexicans to the United States. This movement has had crucial effects on the division of community and family labor, separating the cost of maintaining the workforce (supported by young men subject to transnational capital) from the cost of workforce reproduction (undertaken by women as mothers, wives, and artisans). San Pablito Pahuatlán, pueblo otomí reconocido por la producción intensiva de papel amate, es en nuestros días un nodo de un corredor migratorio que se extiende en la confluencia del sureste del estado de Hidalgo y la parte noroccidental de la Sierra Norte de Puebla. La migración de los sanpablitos, primero hacia el sur de Texas y después a Carolina del Norte, es analizada en este trabajo como respuesta a dos procesos locales—la pérdida de viabilidad de la cafeticultura en la región y la contracción del mercado laboral en la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México—y, asimismo, como expresión de la transnacionalización de los mercados laborales vía los movimientos poblacionales de mexicanos a Estados Unidos. Estas transiciones han tenido efectos cruciales en la división del trabajo comunitario y familiar, separando los costos de mantenimiento de la fuerza de trabajo (solventados por jóvenes trabajadores subordinados al capital transnacional) de los costos de reproducción de la mano de obra (llevados a cuestas por mujeres madres-esposas-artesanas).

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Understanding accelerated and return migration in Central Mexico: migration, class and gender -- Accelerated migration as a symptom of restructuring of both the Mexican and US economies -- After accelerated migration: conceptualizing return -- New global migratory order and new formations of class and gender -- Class -- Gender -- Ethnographic research in Mexico and the United States -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Rural Central Mexico and the East Coast of theUnited States: articulating surplus labor and restructured economies -- Introduction -- The destruction of rural Mexico -- Pahuatlán -- Zapotitlán -- Economic restructuring of the East Coast of the United States -- Geographic and demographic changes in migratory flows -- Pahuatecos/as in Raleigh-Durham Corridor, North Carolina -- Zapotitecos/as in New York -- The end of accelerated migration: financial crisis and the criminalization of immigration -- Economic and financial crisis -- Immigration policies and migrant flows: regulating and containing mobile surplus labor -- Comparing accelerated migration and return in Pahuatlán and Zapotitlán -- First international migration -- Gender and first migration -- Gender and return migration -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Disarticulation of agriculture, transition to a serviceeconomy in the Sierra Norte of Puebla and accelerated migration to the Nuevo New South -- Introduction -- The background of an accelerated migration flow -- Transitions in migratory patterns -- Pahuatecan migration from a feminist perspective -- Female wage labor and stratified reproduction in Durham -- Aleida, pride and perseverance.