Abstract

ORTIZ HERRERA, María del Rocío. Migrantes tzotziles en la vertiente del mezcalapa y el corazón zoque de Chiapas, 1890-1940. LiminaR [online]. 2007, vol.5, n.2, pp.79-89. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v5i2.252.

The temporary or definitive migration of the Tzotzil Indians of the Highlands of Chiapas to the regions of the Soconusco and Motozintla, at the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, in order to incorporate themselves in work on plantation and coffee farms, has been the object of many studies. Little effort has been made to understand the migrations that Tztotzil families, during the same years, who went to other regions of the state where they also played an important part as laborers, or as small producers who established themselves in empty or national lands. This text pretends to contribute additional information in order to understand the other routes of Tzotzil migration, during the last of the 19th and beginnings of the 20th centuries, especially those that Indian families from San Juan Chamula realized to the towns of Tapilula and Coapilla, a region historically zoque.

Keywords : History; migration; tzotzils; zoque region.