Jóvenes mujeres migranexperiencia individual, estrategia familiar

Abstract

The purpose of this communication is to demystify the idea that Mexican people move to the United States only as economic migrants. On the contrary, the closeness between Mexico and the United States, generates different modes of use of the transnational space, and one of them points to the mobility of young middle-class women, whose migration is performed within specific programs in education and training. The data collected during the field work and analyzed through the qualitative approach, have evidenced the development of mechanisms related to the gender system and the social position occupied by young women in the country of origin. In this sense, the use of formal and informal networks that guarantee a protected displacement, facilitates on the one hand the exit of the home but on the other, create interstices for the action of women who experience new forms of femininity. Likewise, the development of training projects in the United States becomes a family strategy for the reproduction of the social position of young women in the place of origin, through the acquisition of skills that strengthen cultural capital.