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ANGUIANO TELLEZ, María Eugenia. Chiapas: immigration, migration and migratory transit territory. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.56, pp.215-232. ISSN 2448-7147.

The main objective of this article is to explore the current status of Chiapas as a territory of cross-border labor mobility, as well as the Chiapas emergent participation in the intra-regional, national and international migratory flows, and its position as a space of transit for people who are moving trough its territory trying to find a job in another Mexican State or in the United States, most of these people are from Guatemala and Central American. Information provided by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática, the Consejo Nacional de Población, the Instituto Nacional de Migración and two surveys available from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte is examined.

Palavras-chave : Chiapas; cross-border mobility; transit migration; national migration; international migration.

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