Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaChanges in the roles of gender in the Tijuana-San Diego border migrant families and their impact in the creation of feminine identities
At the end of the XX century, some experts on social phenomena at the north border of Mexico, argued that from the mid1980s, women’s national and international migration towards cities in the north, Tijuana in particular, registered important changes. During the XXI century, women do not mobilize ex...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://huellasdelamigracion.uaemex.mx/article/view/4425 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/83983 |
| Sumario: | At the end of the XX century, some experts on social phenomena at the north border of Mexico, argued that from the mid1980s, women’s national and international migration towards cities in the north, Tijuana in particular, registered important changes. During the XXI century, women do not mobilize exclusively as men’s companions, but decide to migrate in order to improve their living conditions. They enter the work force which marks one of the most important characterisitcs in the defining of the dynamics of the border families (Valenzuela, 1998). In 2010, the United Nations most recent studies showed that the weight of women in international migration reached 49.1 per cent of the total, and then decreased to 48 per cent in 2013.[1] The aim of this article is to tackle the dynamics, structures and compositions of families as a unit of analysis of the ways in which the living conditions of migrants influence the process of formation of feminine identities at the Mexico-United States border, the Tijuana-San Diego border in particular. In order to accomplish this aim, the origin of the families is discussed, its characteristic of transborder families, the family structure and composition, the intrafamily dynamic derived from the sexual división of work and, lastly, the discourses about gender present inside the families.
[1]United Nations data published on the website:
http: //www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimatesage.shtml, 2013. |
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