[Is migration really a survival strategy? The case of northern Oaxacan Mixteca]. / Es realmente la migracion una estrategia de supervivencia? Un ejemplo en la Mixteca Alta Oaxaquena.

"Since the 1950s more than 15 million Mexicans predominantly from the southern states of Guerrero and Oaxaca have...migrated to the United States. The article describes the patterns of migration in a Mixteco community of Oaxaca, where 90% of the men and a growing number of women migrate once a year to the United States for illegal seasonal work. The analysis of the causes and effects of migration focuses on the non-economic aspects of this phenomenon and emphasizes the ideological and social motives for migrating, especially those related to ethnic identity and to the establishment of indigenous communities in the Mexican Nation-State." (SUMMARY IN ENG)