Indigenous peoples in someone else’s settler place: Rodolfo Stavenhagen, ‘Ruta Mixteca Indigenous Rights and Mexico’s Plunge into Globalization’, Latin American Perspectives, 2015 | settler colonial studies blog

Indigenous peoples in someone else’s settler place: Rodolfo Stavenhagen, ‘Ruta Mixteca Indigenous Rights and Mexico’s Plunge into Globalization’, Latin American Perspectives, 2015

21Mar15

Abstract: “Ruta Mixteca” is the name given to the circular migrations of indigenous farm workers between the Mexican state of Oaxaca and California long studied by Michael Kearney and his collaborators. Indigenous migrations to the United States have expanded in recent years as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement and changes in Mexico’s agrarian legislation that led to increased privatization of land and natural resources, dispossession of the traditional peasantry, and numerous local land- and resource-related conflicts. The Zapatista uprising stimulated the growth of a host of militant indigenous organizations, now also emboldened by constitutional changes that recognize the human rights of indigenous peoples according to international standards. Indigenous transnational migrations need to adapt to these changing conditions.

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