Women and Migration in the Central Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

该项目询问墨西哥瓦哈卡中央山谷的妇女如何在男性成员迁移时管理家庭。墨西哥的这个地区是全国移民率最高的地区之一。该项目由亚特兰大艾格尼丝·斯科特学院的一位人类学家和她在瓜达拉哈拉大学的墨西哥同事参与，他们将研究移民家庭中妇女处理的家庭、家庭和资源的性质。研究人员将描述女性的起源和归属家庭，将移民家庭与非移民兄弟姐妹家庭进行比较，并描述移民家庭中女性的经济行为。该项目将检验关于工资对移民影响的假设：男性独自移民是因为他们的移民工资不足以支持他们在目的地的家庭；男性能够迁徙是因为女性劳动力支付了旅行费用并同时支持了家庭；墨西哥的当地条件可以解释移民发送率随时间的变化。该项目将采用多种方法，对20个社区的约1000名妇女进行调查（占中央山谷社区样本的10%）；对来自每个社区的5名女性进行了广泛的生活史访谈，以确定亲属关系、血统历史、家庭消费-工人比例，以及更传统的人种学访谈和参与者观察。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对墨西哥移民到美国的原因的理解。通过着重妇女的作用和原产家庭的当地条件，该项目将提供宝贵的新知识，以补充以男性为重点的现有调查。│/¥┤╣¥©└╝”║╝一│╣¢A┬║一╝╣_A¥/ %¥│©╣╗┐一¢╝一╗┐╣╝┤一个吗?<s:1>¥©Á职权范围Á¢¥职权范围À/职权范围？？▓?╝?©”┤╝╣┤¢

This project asks how women in the central valley of Oaxaca, Mexico manage their households while a male member migrates. This region of Mexico has one of the highest migration rates in the country. The project, involving an anthropologist from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta and her Mexican colleague from the University of Guadalajara, will study the nature of the families, households, and resources women in migrant households deal with. The researchers will describe the women's households of origin and ascription, compare households with migrants to those of non-migrating siblings, and describe the economic behavior of women in migrant households. The project will test hypotheses about the impact of wages on migration: that men migrate alone because their migrant wages are insufficient to support their families at their destinations; that men are able to migrate because female labor finances the trip and supports the household in the meantime; and that local conditions in Mexico can explain variations in migrant sending rates over time. The project will use a mix of methods, a survey of about 1,000 women in 20 communities (a 10% sample of central valley communities); an extensive life history interview with five women from each community to determine kinship, lineage histories, household consumer-worker ratios, and more traditional ethnographic interviewing and participant observation. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of the causes of Mexican migration to the US. By focusing on the role of women and of local conditions in the originating households the project will contribute valuable new knowledge to complement the existing surveys which focus on males. │/¥Á┤ ╣ ¥©Á └Á╝` ║╝Á│╣¢Á Á┬║Á╝╣_Á¥/% ¥Á│©╣╗┐Á¢ ╝Á╗┐╣╝Á┤ Â?╝ ¥©Á ╣└Á¢¥╣À/¥╣? ? ▓?╝? ©`┤╝╣┤Á¢