RETURNED MIGRATION AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY OF THE MORELIA-QUERÉNDARO VALLEY, MICHOACÁN, MÉXICO

Abstract

The importance of return migration lies in being the final step in the migration process and also in the social, economic, cultural, technological, and physical conditions of the migrants returning to their communities. It is considered that migration allowed the acquisition of new knowledge to be applied in the region. The aims of this research consisted on identifying the working activities done by migrants before and during the migration cycle; the acquisition of technological knowledge in immigrants; and the productive and working activities they are actually doing at the Morelia- Queréndaro Valley. The information was collected by the sampling method called snowball, supported by semi-structured interviews applied to 51 key informants. It was found that before their departure they work as farmers. As American immigrants, they performed activities in the countryside and in the city that required a low technological level. When they return they bring three important elements they have acquired during the process: a) knowledge; b) remittances; and c) technology.

Keywords

• agriculture
• tangible and intangible remittances
• use of remittances.