Navigating the city: internal migration of Oaxacan indigenous women.

The relationship between migration and gender roles has received increased attention in recent decades but most of the literature has focused on transnational migration while the relationships between transnational and internal migration, and gender roles and internal migration have not been widely...

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Published in:Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 849 - 866
Main Author: Sandoval-Cervantes, Ivan
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Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2017
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        affil: Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
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        Internal migration
        Indigenous women
        Courage
        Transnationalism
        Mexico City (Mexico)
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          Internal migration
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          Courage
          Transnationalism
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        indigenous peoples
        Mexico
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        Oaxaca
      ab: The relationship between migration and gender roles has received increased attention in recent decades but most of the literature has focused on transnational migration while the relationships between transnational and internal migration, and gender roles and internal migration have not been widely studied. In this paper, I analyse internal migration as a ‘transborder experience’. I argue that indigenous women from Zegache who engage in internal migration to Mexico City pose greater challenges to ‘traditional’ gender roles in their community because their experience as single young women navigating Mexico’s capital and their reliance on female social networks allow them to obtain social legitimation by claiming migration experience and courageousness. I contrast migration to Mexico City with transnational migration. Although transnational migration challenges, to some extent, existing gender roles, women from Zegache who migrate transnationally often do so as part of couples and within gendered social networks.
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