Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México

This article analyzes the particular effect of the new Mexican law over the exchange of dollars published in the Diario Oficial last July, in the zone in the frontier between Mexico and the United States, where 20 millions of Mexicans live. In this territory a new system of remittance exchange has b...

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Main Author: Genoveva Flores Quintero
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Groupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire 2011-07-01
Series:Les Cahiers ALHIM
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/alhim/3782
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description This article analyzes the particular effect of the new Mexican law over the exchange of dollars published in the Diario Oficial last July, in the zone in the frontier between Mexico and the United States, where 20 millions of Mexicans live. In this territory a new system of remittance exchange has been developed in the last years. In the base of that system lies the migrant’s salary which is the second most important money coming source after the petroleum incomes for Mexico; these migrant incomes support the rural economy of little towns close the frontier and cities in the center of Mexico, but they have become dollar dependents in the economic sense. In normal conditions migrants send money from U.S.A. to Mexico by money orders or electronic transferences, but these services are expensive for the migrants and because of that, they turn to send the cash by people that cross legally the frontier towards Mexico. That economical dynamic is being interrupted by the new Mexican law and the economy that depends on it is being broken. In addition the migrants and their families live in a violence environment as a result of drug trafficking war.
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spelling doaj-art-4bd77ad40d1b4514b3488dde8566dd2a2025-01-10T14:55:42ZspaGroupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et MémoireLes Cahiers ALHIM1628-67311777-51752011-07-012110.4000/alhim.3782Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de MéxicoGenoveva Flores QuinteroThis article analyzes the particular effect of the new Mexican law over the exchange of dollars published in the Diario Oficial last July, in the zone in the frontier between Mexico and the United States, where 20 millions of Mexicans live. In this territory a new system of remittance exchange has been developed in the last years. In the base of that system lies the migrant’s salary which is the second most important money coming source after the petroleum incomes for Mexico; these migrant incomes support the rural economy of little towns close the frontier and cities in the center of Mexico, but they have become dollar dependents in the economic sense. In normal conditions migrants send money from U.S.A. to Mexico by money orders or electronic transferences, but these services are expensive for the migrants and because of that, they turn to send the cash by people that cross legally the frontier towards Mexico. That economical dynamic is being interrupted by the new Mexican law and the economy that depends on it is being broken. In addition the migrants and their families live in a violence environment as a result of drug trafficking war.https://journals.openedition.org/alhim/3782migrationremittancedrug trafficking warfrontier U.S.A.-Mexicodivided families.
spellingShingle Genoveva Flores Quintero
Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México
Les Cahiers ALHIM
migration
remittance
drug trafficking war
frontier U.S.A.-Mexico
divided families.
title Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México
title_full Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México
title_fullStr Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México
title_full_unstemmed Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México
title_short Remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de México
title_sort remesas fantasmas y familias divididas del norte y centro de mexico
topic migration
remittance
drug trafficking war
frontier U.S.A.-Mexico
divided families.
url https://journals.openedition.org/alhim/3782
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