Abstract

HUERTA MATA, Rosa María. Remittances and Economic Agency of University Students in the Mezquital Valley. Migr. Inter [online]. 2021, vol.12, rmiv1i12382.  Epub Jan 24, 2022. ISSN 2594-0279.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2382.

The article’s objective is to analyze the economic agency acquired by university students through the international remittances support network. During September and October 2019, five in- depth interviews were conducted with female law students from the Actopan Higher School of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo. Young women’s households receive remittances whose function is to help them economically, a network built through the family connection with their maternal uncles. The student’s mothers are sorors which allows young women to obtain economic agency. This analysis contributes to the knowledge about one of the effects of remittances on households in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico. The results of the study only focus on one region of the country.

Keywords : 1. remittances; 2. economic agency; 3. sisterhood; 4. Mezquital Valley; 5. Mexico.

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