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MARQUEZ-COVARRUBIAS, Humberto. Assigning development responsibility to migrants: Lessons of the Zacatecas social laboratory. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.32, pp.99-141. ISSN 2448-6183.

In this article we address the alleged positive link between migration and development. We consider the state of Zacatecas in Mexico as a social laboratory and propose a conceptual triad in order to explain the main processes that take place: transnational labour, dependence on remittances and depopulation. We conceptualise the different migration and development modes that are present in Zacatecas, namely: family subsistence by remittances, transnational participative development, local economic development based on remittances and political development with migrant participation. We conclude that these modes do not really encourage local or regional development; however, they are associated to the deepening of social unsustainability and worsening of productivity in the locality of origin.

Palabras llave : transnational labour; depopulation; dependence on remittances; transnational participative development; local economic development based on remittances.

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