Full Description
Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment when they are weakened by the absence of their members? In an era where community-based natural resource management has emerged as a key hope for sustainable development, this is a crucial question.
Building on over a decade of empirical work conducted in Oaxaca, Mexico, Communities Surviving Migration identifies how out-migration can impact rural communities in strongholds of biocultural diversity. It reflects on the possibilities of community self-governance and survival in the likely future of limited additional migration and steady - but low - rural populations, and what different scenarios imply for environmental governance and biodiversity conservation. In this way, the book adds a critical cultural component to the understanding of migration-environment linkages, specifically with respect to environmental change in migrant-sending regions.
Responding to the call for more detailed analyses and reporting on migration and environmental change, especially in contexts where rural communities, livelihoods and biodiversity are interconnected, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental migration, development studies, population geography, and Latin American studies.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Terms
SECTION I: SETTING THE SCENE
Chapter 1 - Communities Surviving Migration? The Migration-Community-Environment Nexus
James P. Robson, Dan Klooster, and Jorge Hernández-Díaz
Chapter 2 - Population, Territory, and Governance in Rural Oaxaca
Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson
Chapter 3 - Migration Dynamics and Migrant Organising in Rural Oaxaca
Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson
SECTION II: EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES
Chapter 4 - Avatars of Community: The Zapotec Migrants of Zoogocho Micro-region
Jorge Hernández-Díaz
Chapter 5 - Santa María Tindú: The Tip of a Melting Iceberg
Dan Klooster
Chapter 6 - Children of the Wind: Migration and Change in Santa María Yavesia
Mario Fernando Ramos Morales and James P. Robson
Chapter 7 - More Space and More Constraint: Migration and Environment in Santa Cruz Tepetotutla
Dan Klooster
Chapter 8 - Migration, Community, and Land Use in San Juan Evangelista Analco
Fermín Sosa Pérez and James P. Robson
Chapter 9 - Adaptive Governance or Cultural Transformation? The Monetization of Usos y Costumbres in Santiago Comaltepec
James P. Robson
SECTION III: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 10 - The Changing Landscapes of Indigenous Oaxaca
James P. Robson and Dan Klooster
Chapter 11 - Migrant Organising, Village Governance, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality
Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson
Chapter 12 - Communities Shaping Migration: The Migration-Community-Environment NexusDan Klooster, James P. Robson, and Jorge Hernández-Díaz
Index
