Abstract

MADERA-PACHECO, Jesús A.  and  HERNANDEZ, Dagoberto de Dios. The tobacco route: temporary migration between Nayarit, México, and the eastern coast of the United States. agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2016, vol.13, n.4, pp.585-604. ISSN 1870-5472.

Nayarit is the main tobacco-producing state in México; however, this activity has decreased since the beginning of the 1980s, something that is primarily reflected in a reduction of the surface cultivated with tobacco and in the number of producers authorized. The general objective of this study consists in communicating the impact that the migration phenomenon between Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, and the Eastern Coast of the United States has had among migrants and their families in terms of agriculture, financial capital, intellectual capital and social capital. As axis guiding this research, we suggest that employment in tobacco fields in the United States is one of the important factors why the policy of productive reconversion for tobacco in Nayarit, which came into effect since 2004, hasn’t found an echo. The historical tobacco production in Nayarit has trained a specialized workforce that is employed in the tobacco fields of the United States; thus, how could they leave the activity that allows them to become the specialized workforce for which they are hired, in a place where they are paid as day laborers, as much as ten times more than they earn here as producers?

Keywords : agricultural day laborers; migratory route; tobacco growers.

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