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CASTILLO RAMIREZ, Guillermo. Migration and Socioeconomic Changes in Rural Contexts. Norteamérica [online]. 2020, vol.15, n.1, pp.57-84.  Epub 22-Jan-2021. ISSN 2448-7228.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2020.1.392.

In the context of Mexico-U.S. international transborder mobility at the turn of the century, this article argues that undocumented migration from Chiapas to the United Sates was carried out through social and family networks in order to resolve different needs and had different impacts in migrant families’ places of origin. The author uses a qualitative local methodological approach based on ethnographic work and semi-structured interviews. One of the article’s contributions is to show that migration produces economic, social, and family changes locally and at the level of the home, generating restructurings of different intensities in certain spheres of the social order in places of origin.

Palavras-chave : international migration; rural localities; migrants; social change; Chiapas.