TY  - UNPD
A1  - Martinez-Iglesias, Maria
T1  - Migration, gender and land inheritance shift: wives, mothers and sisters in the absence of men in indigenous rural Oaxaca (Mexico)
T2  - Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" ; No. 4
N2  - This paper studies the linkage between international male migration and changes on land inheritance patterns in rural Oaxaca (Mexico). Land inheritance is a long-term exchange between parents and male adult children in Oaxaca: sons are bequeathed with land as long as they provide for their parents (and their wives care for their in-laws) while daughters are excluded from the family patrimony. Drawing on theoretical sample and 37 in depth interviews, this paper argues that intergenerational solidarity based on the parent-son alliance through inheritance is breaking down due to the uncertainty of men´s migration project along with the increase in the fallback position of wives, who may refuse to take care of elderly in-laws. Other alliances emerge instead: parents try to build new alliances with their daughters, bequeathing them agricultural and building plots. However, these new alliances and inheritance shifts are neither a heterogeneous process nor an automatic change and several family and social dimensions must be included to understand the different outcomes.
T3  - Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" - 4 
KW  - migration
KW  - gender
KW  - indigenous extended family
KW  - land inheritance
KW  - Oaxaca
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42725
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-427258
UR  - http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/54763348/Working-Paper_4.pdf
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -