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- Title
Origen es destino: Capital social en comunidades zapotecas migrantes a Estados Unidos.
- Authors
Arenas, Mariana Gabarrot
- Abstract
This article is based on two Zapotec communities in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, showing the usefulness of the concept of social capital in studying transnational social phenomena such as Mexico-US migration flow. Using quantitative data and qualitative material, it argues that the system of uses and customs, understood as social capital, plays a major role when trying to explain how migration functions in communities of origin and how the migrants' transnational relations can aid us in understanding how they are organized in the destination country. To that end, the two main sources of social capital associated with uses and customs are analyzed: the capacity to sanction those not complying with norms and the socialization of migrants in an atmosphere of reciprocity.
- Subjects
OAXACA (Mexico : State); UNITED States; MEXICO; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); ZAPOTEC language; TRANSNATIONALISM; SOCIALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE research
- Publication
Trayectorias, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 30, p56
- ISSN
2007-1205
- Publication type
Article