The Pull of the Marketplace: Colonia Growth and Regional Migration in Guerrero, Mexico

Authors

William Yaworsky, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Kenneth Kickham, University of Central Oklahoma

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-30-2009

Abstract

Analysis of a survey administered in 2006 reveals that colonia residents in Chilapa, Guerrero, Mexico, are more likely to have migrated from rural areas within the city's traditional marketing hinterland than from equally nearby villages that orient their trade to other regional marketplaces. The study suggests that the regional marketing systems, rather than municipal jurisdictions, are the major institutions channeling rural to urban migration in the fieldsite. The article also explores the occupational shifts associated with the transition to life in the urban colonias.

Comments

© 2009 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc

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Recommended Citation

Yaworsky, W. and Kickham, K. (2009), The Pull of the Marketplace: Colonia Growth and Regional Migration in Guerrero, Mexico. The Latin Americanist, 53: 29-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1557-203X.2009.01051.x

Publication Title

The Latin Americanist

DOI

10.1111/j.1557-203X.2009.01051.x