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MIGRATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO
Causes of Indigenous Migration
1. The origin of indigenous migration is tied to that of the industrialization process followed in Mexico since the decade of the 1940’s and to the quick transformation of an agriculturally based economy to an urban industrialized economy. This rapid change had lowered the level of agricultural production in the indigenous areas that become even more marginal, and favored investments in the northwestern part of the country where commercial agriculture began to rapidly develop (with concomitant needs of transport, credit, improved seed varieties, fertilizers, farm machinery, etc.). The Northern regions immediately became poles of attraction for the indigenous labor force, especially after 1980. There was already a tradition of migration among some indigenous communities related to religious feasts, as for instance some of the Maya communities in Yucatan that periodically went to visit sacred sites. Among the Zapotecs and Mixtecs in Oaxaca, migration was linked traditionally to the commercial activities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Purepechas of Michoacan began to migrate to the United States in the 1940’s. Today, there is at least one member of the household who emigrates, a phenomenon found in all the 56 indigenous groups of the country.
This migration, initially characterized by the migration of a single male member of the household, was reinforced through time and slowly began to include brothers, sons, kinfolk, until it became a mass migration that includes women as well.
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