Resumen

QUESNEL, André  y  REY, Alberto del. The Construction of an Archipelago Family Economy. Mobility and Re-Composition of Intergenerational Relations in the Mexican Rural Setting. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2005, vol.20, n.2, pp.197-228.  Epub 20-Ene-2020. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v20i2.1217.

The economic reforms in the rural setting that accompanied the ratification of NAFTA (1994) and more specifically the 1992 reform of the social ownership of land in the ejidos has radically altered the conditions of social reproduction of rural families in the south of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. These changes have led to the long-term migration of young generations to the northern border and the United States, whereas in the early 1990s, migration had been restricted to the Gulf of Mexico.

On the basis of a socio-demographic and land ownership survey conducted in 1999, the article shows how rural families, unable to eke a living from the few domestic and local resources available to them in their environment, have been forced to implement a new form of organization resembling an archipelago economy between the different places where the younger generations have settled.

In this context, the article shows how intergenerational relationships of solidarity come into play and are redefined, as are the means of transmission and circulation of agrarian patrimony, both in the heart of the agrarian community (ejido) and families themselves.

Palabras llave : rural families; rural migration; economy; intergenerational relationship; agrarian reform; Veracruz; Mexico; kinship.