Migración y adaptación sociocultural: apuntes para el estudio de las representaciones sociales e historias de vida de mujeres ocupadas en la economía informal en Chihuahua

Abstract

This paper is an approach to the study of the social representations which women ofan informal economy of Chihuahua have built based on a highly significant happening in their Uves: migration. The way which this phenomenon has determined their histories and allowed them, through a process of recongnition and of social ocuppation ofthe means, to adapt themselves with their culture oforigin (rural) to new environments ofsocial action. This process involves the construction ofeffective and legitímate forms of social representa tion which sanction their subjectivity as subsistence practices.