Double histories: agricultural and flexible workers between NYC and Huaquechula in cycles of economic crisis

• In Event: Neoliberalism, Flexible Accumulation and Rural Mexico: New Protagonists and Subjectivities in the Wake of the Great Recession

Abstract

After the decade of the 1980s, southern and central Mexican localities specialized in direct agricultural production created intense circuits of migration to unskilled labor markets in the United States. This accelerated migration continued growing until the late 2010s. The global crisis in 2008 affected the pattern of migratory flows and U. S. internal demand of Mexican labor power. On the other hand, in Mexico, these localities were integrated into an agricultural economy characterized by an ideological market fundamentalism. This paper will describe Huaquechulan international workers’ return and their experiences after the 2008 crisis.

Author

• Christian Pacheco Gómez