México en la órbita de la economía global del trabajo barato: dependencia crítica de las remesas

Throughout the world, international migration is acquiring greater visibility and economic, social, political and cultural importance. But it is in the mature migratory systems where the differentiated role played by migration in the societies of origin and destiny becomes more apparent. In the case Mexico-U.S. migration, the Mexican labor plays a key role in the process of U.S. productive restructuring and, in counterpart; it contributes to the support of a precarious socioeconomic stability in Mexico, in the absence of a national development policy and growing asymmetries between both countries. In this regard, the present article attempts to disentangle the socioeconomic importance of remittances in Mexico, in a context where the dependency towards that conspicuous resource is deepened