Abstract

MARTINEZ CUERO, Julieta; LOPEZ AREVALO, Jorge Alberto  and  GOMEZ SANTIAGO, Sergio Martín. Institutions, Migration, Remittances, and Poverty: The Cases of Rancho Narváez and Yalvanté, Chiapas, Mexico. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2022, vol.17, e590.  Epub Apr 17, 2023. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2022.v17.590.

This paper aims to analyze the role played by formal and informal institutions in sending, receiving, and using remittances in two indigenous communities in Mexico with a historical experience of migration and high poverty levels. It explores the socioeconomic dynamics of the migrants' territories of origin, focusing on the influence of socially shared rules, as well as family and community agreements concerning decisions about consumption, investment, and/or savings in recipient households. The findings presented were obtained from fieldwork conducted during 2019 and 2020 in two sites in San Juan Chamula, in which 35 interviews were made and 30 surveys were applied to key stakeholders. The conclusions highlight the need to strengthen institutions in order to promote a productive use of foreign income and emphasize the importance of these money transfers to reduce poverty.

Keywords : migrant networks; remittances; indigenous communities.

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