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Bever, Sandra Weinstein.

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Migration, household economy, and gender: A comparative study of households in a rural Yucatec Maya community.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Migration, household economy, and gender: A comparative study of households in a rural Yucatec Maya community./
Author:	Bever, Sandra Weinstein.
Description:	264 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-12, Section: A, page: 4489.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9955771
ISBN:	9780599593879

Migration, household economy, and gender: A comparative study of households in a rural Yucatec Maya community.
Bever, Sandra Weinstein.

Migration, household economy, and gender: A comparative study of households in a rural Yucatec Maya community. - 264 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-12, Section: A, page: 4489.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Methodist University, 1999.

This study attempts to explain why many Yucatec Maya households believe that migration is a worthwhile economic endeavor. Moreover, this research demonstrates how households differentially rely on migration throughout the life cycle and whether there is a marked difference in socioeconomic status between migrating and non-migrating households. This dissertation argues for a new approach in single-community migration studies. The author makes the case for studying variability within the context of migration, rather than looking at migrant households as a singular, homogenous unit. By grouping migrant households into a single category, previous studies have ignored the variability found within migrant households, such as family composition, length of the migration episode, and control over migrant remittances. Organized within a comparative framework of migrant vs. non-migrant households, the research addresses key points concerning the migration process in a rural Yucatec Maya community.

ISBN: 9780599593879Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Migration, household economy, and gender: A comparative study of households in a rural Yucatec Maya community.
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520 $a This study attempts to explain why many Yucatec Maya households believe that migration is a worthwhile economic endeavor. Moreover, this research demonstrates how households differentially rely on migration throughout the life cycle and whether there is a marked difference in socioeconomic status between migrating and non-migrating households. This dissertation argues for a new approach in single-community migration studies. The author makes the case for studying variability within the context of migration, rather than looking at migrant households as a singular, homogenous unit. By grouping migrant households into a single category, previous studies have ignored the variability found within migrant households, such as family composition, length of the migration episode, and control over migrant remittances. Organized within a comparative framework of migrant vs. non-migrant households, the research addresses key points concerning the migration process in a rural Yucatec Maya community.
520 $a In addition to contributing to the study of the rural household economy, this dissertation presents a gendered analysis of the migration process. The study addresses how women cope with the absence of their spouses, but more importantly, it illustrates the temporary transformations of gender roles, gender relations, and gender hierarchies during periods of male absence.
520 $a By generating a cluster analysis, the author created a profile of households based on a series of economic factors that strongly predict household welfare. Migrant households were found among the higher income groups and tend to be involved in multiple economic strategies including subsistence production, the petty commodity production of hammocks and foodstuffs, and wage labor. Non-migrant households tend to encompass the lower income groups who generally include younger families and are not economically-diversified.
520 $a The analysis also demonstrated that the day-to-day activities of migrant and non-migrant wives are quite similar and that women utilize social networks in a comparable manner. Moreover, the variability in gender relations and gender roles between migrant and non-migrant wives is more a function of the stage in the developmental cycle of the family than the migration status of the household.
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