Abstract

MACIAS GONZALEZ, Gizelle Guadalupe  and  GARCIA ARRIAGA, Andrea Victoria. Grandma’s arms, a place to go back to. Intergenerational migratory paths of transnational families: social and economic impact from the experience of Mexican women. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2018, n.16, pp.187-224. ISSN 2007-4964.

The objective of this text is to reconstruct intergenerational migratory paths as expressed in the voices of grandmothers. Based on the perspectives and experience of these women -all born between the 1930s and 1950s- it describes the life-cycle of each family group in retrospect. Family profiles were rebuilt by conducting in-depth interviews and gathering life histories and accounts of the flows and impacts of migration on vital family events. Thus, it allows the reader to appreciate the elements of mobility, periods of residence and separations that frame the migratory processes of transnational families, together with changes in their life-cycles, all through the lens of gender relations. We seek to elucidate the social and economic impact of migration in each stage of the lives of these five women who reside in Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico, and the role they play as mobile axes of the maintenance of family ties that are so often minimized by processes of capital accumulation.

Keywords : International migration; transnational family; gender; family economy; feminist economy; women.

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