Gendered mobility and morality in a south-eastern Mexican community: Impacts of male labour migration on the women left behind
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title
Mobilities
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
3-19-2012
Volume
7
Issue
3
First Page
369
Last Page
388
Abstract
Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male out-migration has forced women to take on labour tasks that are associated with new spatial and mobility patterns. While these patterns have potential for increased empowerment for women, they also call the women’s morality into question, resulting in a policing of the women’s behaviour, and a simultaneous restriction of their mobility, by themselves and others. Therefore, we find male labour out-migration has resulted in contradictory changes in women’s mobility, with ambiguous results for women’s gender empowerment.
Recommended Citation
McEvoy, J.; Petrzelka, P.; Radel, Claudia; and Schmook, B., "Gendered mobility and morality in a south-eastern Mexican community: Impacts of male labour migration on the women left behind" (2012). Environment and Society Faculty Publications. Paper 865.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/envs_facpub/865
Comments
Originally published by Taylor & Francis in Mobilities.
Link to publisher version available below:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2012.655977