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Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters
Human-Environment Interactions: Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability (2014)
  • Claudia Radel, Utah State University
Abstract
In this chapter, we present evidence of two gendered agricultural asset shifts associated with labour out-migration in the municipality of Calakmul, Campeche. The first is a shift in land rights from men to women (wives), which occurred as men’s labour out-migration, largely to the U.S., coincided with the process of land privatisation and the reform of the ejidal system in Mexico. Ejidos are collective land tenure institutions dating back to the Mexican Revolution and the redistribution of land in the previous century...
Publication Date
2014
Editor
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
978-94-017-8677-5
Citation Information
Claudia Radel. "Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters" Human-Environment Interactions: Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability Vol. 4 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/claudia_radel/30/