Weaving trajectories through support networks: The migrant experience of indigenous working women from Chiapas to Nuevo León, Mexico

Abstract

The present work addresses migration as an important component of population changes, and focuses on the analysis of the support networks of women who carry out household work, in the case of these women, they are: women indigenous people, who migrate internally, to carry out paid household work, among other characteristics, which can place them in a situation of multiple vulnerability. This, from a theoretical-contextual framework nourished by the analysis of the state of the art, and a qualitative approach that required discussion group and interview techniques, to understand trajectories and perceptions. Among the results, an approach was obtained to the work of these support networks, their impressions about human rights, their impact on the social inclusion of women and the existing challenges. As conclusions, we find, among other aspects, that the perception of discrimination, for various reasons, is higher towards women, which hinders their insertion mainly in the workplace, when facing situations related to the violation of their human rights, such as in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which made visible the precariousness and instability at work.