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BAYONA ESCAT, Eugenia. Un negocio entre paisanos: los tiangueros purépechas en la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara. LiminaR [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.1, pp.74-97. ISSN 2007-8900.

The article shows the evolution and development of informal trade activity that has developed a group of immigrants in a colony Purépecha peripheral metropolitan area of Guadalajara. It discusses key concepts such as corporate groups, networks and organization primary family and work, which are necessary to understand the process of settlement and labor capture niche between a minority immigrant group in the urban world. The corporate group is developing a specialty based on commercial, but also by maintaining a set of rules and values that govern the pioneers and immigrants with social prestige.

Palavras-chave : Purépecha immigration; corporate group; primary networks; family and work organization.