Abstract

LAGUNAS VAZQUES, Magdalena; BELTRAN MORALES, Luis Felipe  and  ORTEGA RUBIO, Alfredo. Land Rights, Inheritance and Land in Ejidos of Northwest Mexico: A Sociocultural Analysis with Gender Perspective. Desacatos [online]. 2018, n.58, pp.148-167. ISSN 2448-5144.

We aim to describe women ejidatarias socioculturally in four ejidos —village communal holdings— of Baja California Sur, including their processes of access to land and agrarian rights, the main patterns of inheritance and gender inequalities in a rural environment. Semi-structured and in-depth interviews, and field diaries with a gender perspective are used on methodological approach. The percentage of women with land rights is minimal and 90% acquired them by inheritance. More than half believe that there is discrimination against women. Cultural patterns of access to land, customs over inheritance, and in general the role of peasant women in society propitiate the situation of inequality currently prevailing in the countryside for rural women.

Keywords : ejidos —village communal holdings—; gender perspective; agrarian inequality; rural women; women with land rights.

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