Migration in Times of Globalization: The Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

Immigration reform, anti-immigrant fervor and pro-immigrant protests in 2006 make the causes of Mexican migration an important political issue. In this chapter, survey data and interviews with Zapotec- and Spanish-speaking female household heads from Oaxaca, Mexico examine the relation between migrant destinations and labor demand in Mexico and the US. The goal of this piece is to assert the importance of structural and world economic processes (e.g., demand for labor) in the configuration of historically specific migration patterns.

Citation

Rees, M.W. (2006), "Migration in Times of Globalization: The Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico", Wood, D.C. (Ed.) Choice in Economic Contexts (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 27-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(06)25002-9