Resumen

GONZALEZ VELAZQUEZ, Eduardo. "Cuando el trabajo acaba queda muerto el huerto": educación y desempleo, la persistente ironía migratoria en Guachinango, Jalisco. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2015, n.10, pp.1-25. ISSN 2007-4964.

Guachinango's economic life has been based on agriculture, ranching and mining, with a very weak level of commercial activity, which is mainly focused on its municipal territory. This has been stopping the town from having a bigger weight on the economic development in Jalisco; having the effect of a significant, and constant diminishment of their population which starts chasing after better horizons whether in Guadalajara, in any other State of our Mexican Republic or in the United States. Now a days, Guachinango is not only suffering this reduction in number of its population, but also a division between them: those who live in the southern part (from Pánico and the municipal capital to the border with Ameca's municipality); and the ones who live in the northern communities (on the sides of the Ameca river). Guachinango's youth is facing the paradox of being able to even go to college in the CUVALLES, but not having any employment to keep them inside their town. Being educated, but not retained. With this logic "we will never grow, on the contrary, our population diminishes. We may lose the status of municipality or even turn into a ghost town like so many others existing within our national borders". This being the case, education has only been able to slow down the process of migration, but not yet been able to stop it.

Palabras llave : Migration; employment; unemployment; education.