Masahuat and Migration

Abstract

The municipality of Masahuat has been classified as being in a state of extreme poverty, and which has not been able to overcome that category in spite of all the programs that have been introduced. In order to carry out this research work, an exploratory, transversal and descriptive method was applied. This municipality can also be characterized as a one that forces people out, where 77.2% stated that they have relatives abroad, and of these, 40.2% receive remittances. In this municipality, as in the entire country, the causes of migration, have changed according to how the socioeconomic and environmental situation have evolved. It can be asserted that the economic factor (poverty, lack of employment, lack of opportunities for young people and others), represents the fundamental cause of migration, [along with others like] family reunification, loss of crops as a result of climate change and, according to very recent data, the social violence of the maras/gangs.

Revista Entorno No. 74 2022: 33-49