Abstract

AQUINO MORESCHI, Alejandra. Chiapas Migrants in the United States: The New Work Nomads. Migr. Inter [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.4, pp.39-68. ISSN 2594-0279.

This article analyzes the migratory experience of a group of Chiapanecan youngsters of Tojolabal origin from the municipality of Las Margaritas, Chiapas, who migrated to the United States between 2003 and 2006. These young people were the first people to engage in the a migration adventure, which enables us to what gives us the possibility of closely observe the emergence of a transnational migration process from an area where this kind of phenomenon had not previously existed. The main objective of this paper is to show how Chiapanecan youngsters have managed to build up their migration processes on their own within a context characterized by unstable and fragmented social conditions-typical of the present capitalist system-that have obliged them to change their living and working places continuously, as well as living with uncertainty and at risk. In other words, the author is interested in showing the personal and collective solutions that these new migrants have found in order to adapt to and work in a context defined by what Richard Sennet has called the culture of new capitalism.

Keywords : international migration; new migration flows; capitalism; Tojolabal; Chiapas.

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