Communities surviving migration : village governance, environment, and cultural survival in indigenous Mexico / edited by James P. Robson, Dan Klooster and Jorge Hernández-Díaz.

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.

Communities surviving migration? : the migration-community-environment nexus / James P. Robson, Dan Klooster, and Jorge Hernández-Díaz -- Population, territory, and governance in rural Oaxaca / Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson -- Migration dynamics and migrant organising in rural Oaxaca / Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson -- Avatars of community : the Zapotec migrants of Zoogocho micro-region / Jorge Hernández-Díaz -- Santa María Tindú : the tip of a melting iceberg / Dan Klooster -- Children of the wind : migration and change in Santa María Yavesia / Mario Fernando Ramos Morales and James P. Robson -- More space and more constraint : migration and environment in Santa Cruz Tepetotutla / Dan Klooster -- Migration, community, and land use in San Juan Evangelista Analco / Fermín Sosa Pérez and James P. Robson -- Adaptive governance or cultural transformation? : the monetization of usos y costumbres in Santiago Comaltepec / James P. Robson -- The changing landscapes of indigenous Oaxaca / James P. Robson and Dan Klooster -- Migrant organising, village governance, and the ephemeral nature of translocality / Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson -- Communities shaping migration : the migration-community-environment nexus / Dan Klooster, James P. Robson, and Jorge Hernández-Díaz.

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