Globalización, migración y trabajo en la capital del "Blue Jeans"

This article discusses the issues of rapid industrialization and emerging migration in a rural area in the southern state of Puebla, Mexico, in the region of Tehuacan. The proposal is to cross these variables and understand the ways individuals are undergoing processes of change in the medium term. The analysis focuses on the accelerated migration and its connection to the maquiladora export industry and its crisis, whith the aim of proposing a discussion of the arguments about development and emergence of new communities of origin in international migration. It is the reflection on the conditions that involves the phenomenon of economic globalization, a specific industrial and labor model, and women experiencing these conditions in their environment, which was transformed into a period of 20 years. The main idea in the text is to understand that changes in the dynamics and the outcome from the maquiladoras in the region, were the product of neoliberal and global phenomenon in the 90’s, after the adoption of neoliberal policies in Mexico and openness to financial capital and the arrival of transnational firms in these industries, which influences the migration to the us labor, mainly male