Abstract

VAZQUEZ GARCIA, Verónica; SOSA CAPISTRAN, Dulce María  and  OJEDA GUTIERREZ, Dann. Gender and Forced Internal Displacement. The Case of Salaverna, Zacatecas. Secuencia [online]. 2023, n.116, e2079.  Epub June 23, 2023. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i116.2079.

This paper analyzes the gender impacts of Forced Internal Displacement (FID) caused by the expansion of the Tayahua mine in Salaverna, Zacatecas. It is argued that men experience FID mainly through employment loss while women are more affected by deficiencies in water, electricity, education, and health services. Nuevo Salaverna, their new place of residence, is characterized by unemployment, youth migration, lack of space to grow food and raise animals, and social disarray. Conclusions highlight the importance to analyze FID from a gender perspective and to design public policy aimed at protecting the human rights of the women and men being displaced.

Keywords : open pit mining; resettlement; socioenvironmental conflict; gender inequality.