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Faire plus avec moins : comment survivre à la transition économique au Yucatán, Mexique (1982-2002)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gravel, Nathalie |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Surviving the Economic Transitions in Yucatan, Mexico, 1985-2002 Within the free market economic policy of contemporary Mexico, rural inhabitants are particularly prone to under-employment, a decline of purchasing power, low incomes, government withdrawal from social programs and a disorganized agricultural sector. Given these conditions, there should be a shift by extended rural families in the Yucatan state of southeastern Mexico, to return to a domestic (or food-) based income - to generate activities as a means of easing their growing economic vulnerability. We propose to examine the role of the domestic factor in the need to return to traditional survival strategies by rural Yucatecan families. Despite destabilizing economical and structural variables, mayadescendant mestizo populations have implemented effective combinations of income sources within a system of resource pooling on a domestic scale. One of the survival strategies they have implemented includes assigning a new role to the domestic unit, as one of production. The link between domestic production and the informal sector of the economy provides rural families a needed economic boost in the new rural economy. |
| Starting Page | 155 |
| Ending Page | 172 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.7202/011679ar |
| Volume Number | 48 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cgq.ulaval.ca/textes/vol_48/no_134/Gravel.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.7202/011679ar |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
