Resumen

VILA-FREYER, Ana. Migration as a Social Learning: The Development of the Ecotourism Center El Madresal in Ponte Duro, Tonalá, Chiapas. LiminaR [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.115-130. ISSN 2007-8900.

This work tells the story of a group of fishermen, and their wives, that having depleted the shrimp that was the natural resource they had exploited since the founding of their ejido in 1932, were forced to emigrate to the United States. This experience became an individual learning process, experience that became a collective good, which allowed them to create synergies to rebuild their productive life through the establishment of a Co-op and build an ecotourism resort located in the Costa of Chiapas. Led by former migrants and supported by public agencies to promote community development, old fishermen and their wives have learned to work as small entrepreneurs, partners and specialized workers in different areas of the new business.

Palabras llave : migration; development; remittances; social change.