Abstract

VILLAFUERTE SOLIS, Daniel  and  GARCIA AGUILAR, María del Carmen. Tres ciclos migratorios en Chiapas: interno, regional e internacional. Migr. desarro [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.22, pp.03-37. ISSN 1870-7599.

This article describes and analyzes the Chiapas migratory phenomenon in three stages entrenched in the transformations operated in the domestic, regional and international economy. The hypothesis underlying this paper is that the international migration process from Chiapas to the United States is part of a cyclical process that began with internal migration, transited to inter-state migration, and finally gave rise to the international migration through an intergenerational accumulation of cross-border experiences and the formation of migratory networks. This process is associated to the imposition of the neoliberal model and its related policies, which have excavated the crisis of rural production, the upsurge of the agrarian struggle, and the expansion of poverty; all this in close interrelation with other phenomena such as the Zapatista uprising in January 1, 1994, the impacts of climate change in the region, and its convergence with the rise of cross-border Central American migration flows.

Keywords : Chiapas; migration; poverty; crises; cross-border flows.