Abstract

CASTRO FUENTES, Patricia. Migration and sociocultural change in two rural communities from Chalatenango, El Salvador. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.15, pp.143-176. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2013.15.89.

This article presents results from the piece of research titled «Gender and Migration: Family Recomposition.» This study was conducted in the municipalities of Comalapa and Concepción Quezaltepeque in Chalatenango, El Salvador. Fieldwork was carried out between 2009 and 2010. The analysis of the migration phenomenon experienced in El Salvador has been taken from this piece of research. This analysis was made from a cultural hybridization perspective and focuses on the everyday life in the aforementioned municipalities. The intention is to compare the cultural dynamics established between the two, taking into consideration that in the former, people migrate to the USA, whereas in the latter they mostly migrate to Italy.

Keywords : migration; cultural hybridization; family.