Migración jornalera agrícola en la caña de azúcar en Nayarit, México

Resumen

The objective of this article is to describe the migratory phenomenon associated to the sugar cane cultivation in the state of Nayarit, the migratory routes, migrants profiles, and, with those, an approximation of their life conditions in the differents places of destination. To the gathering of information, it was used the cualitative methodology. With the analysis we found that: a) Life conditions of the destination places in the cane zone of  Nayarit, still being precarious, they’re perceived by the cane workers as better as their native (origin) places by the health access and the weather conditions that aloud “to give up¨ the work and therefore the incomes obtained by  it; b) The migratory routes are diverse, traditionally south-north, but it also exists the non traditional ¨north-south¨ and; c) the presence of the work at the plots, machete in hand, of woman cutting the cane.