Processes of (re)territorialization in Chiapas (Mexico) peasant villages in migratory contexts

Abstract

In the context of Mexico-United States migration, this article, from a territorial perspective, researches the changes in the territory of two peasant villages from Las Margaritas (in Chiapas, Mexico), provoked by the international migration, in the beginnings of this century. This text argues that, despite the changes related to migration –absence of young peasants, remittances, familiar and communitarian rearrangements-, there was also the perseverance of old territorialization processes –agricultural production, communitarian sociocultural practices and local forms of social organization–.

Keywords

• territorio
• territorialización
• localidades campesinas
• chiapas
• migración internacional.