Abstract

PRUNIER, Delphine. Inequality as a Comparative Advantage: Borders, Territorial Asymmetries and Agricultural Extractivism; Notes of the case of Honduras. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2021, n.80, pp.200-233.  Epub Oct 11, 2021. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.80.2021.795.

At the crossroads between migratory studies and rural studies, the article explores the conditions for the construction of a fertile ground for migratory expulsion in Central America. To better understand the situations of inequalities and exclusion that currently characterize rural spaces in the region, it proposes to convene a historical and spatial analysis of the multiple layers of frontiers that cross marginalized societies, both socially and territorially, in the case of Honduras. It is about demonstrating that the global extractive productive systems and capitalism in its contemporary phase of globalization are based on processes of differentiation, contrast and heterogeneity on which they know how to support. The different stages of agrarian reforms, the expansion of the cultivation of African palm in the north coast and the logics of domination and social organization of the productive chains are observed in particular. The contribution is dedicated to exploring two acceptances of the notion of frontier -the agricultural and the social- from the perspective of discontinuity, power relations and territorial asymmetries that partly explain the current phenomenon of migratory expulsion in Honduras.

Keywords : agricultural extractivism; African palm; frontiers; migration; Honduras.

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