Violence and Means to Counteract Power: a View to Migrant Indigenous Women in Mexico

Abstract

The article analizes the conditions in which women farmers incorporate into México’s exports processes. This sector has a great need of labour at the national level, which in turn brings about many migration fluxes in which indigenous women play an important role. The study shows how this feminine incorporation into the labour market triggers gender as well as ethnic inequalities that manifest themselves in a segmentation within the branches and sectors of the national economy. Also, the article describes the means to which indigenous women turn to in order to counteract the actual and symbolic violence they are submitted to.

Keywords

• empleo femenino
• mercado de trabajo rural
• mujeres indígenas, relaciones de género, relaciones étnicas