Redes migratorias y trasnacionalización de los mercados de trabajo en la agricultura

México y California

Abstract

Migratory networks and transnationalization of the labour markets in agriculture: Mexico and California. This article analyzes the formation of migratory circles between Mexico and California’s agriculture in order to explain how the agricultural capital’s transnationalization and the growth of the financial and commercial flows with the United States fall in the constitution of a cross-border labour market. We point out some limitations of the “migratory networks” model that has been widely used to explain the increase of the Mexican working immigrations. Instead, we propose to study the new flows of population to rural areas of California as a part of a tendency to ethnic stratification of the agricultural work force in that state. KEY WORDS: networks, migratory circles, agriculture, California.