NEOLIBERALISM, AGRICULTURAL POLICIES AND MIGRATION. CONSEQUENCES OF A MODEL AGAINST PRODUCERS

This paper analyzes the way in which the State, through its agricultural policies, has influenced the changes and current characteristics of agriculture in the rural municipality of Ixtlán, Michoacán. It also discusses how the policies towards the Mexican countryside have been the architects in the transformation of rural life and, in turn, how these transformations were crucial to have established a phenomenon that now has implications in all areas of the life of the inhabitants of rural localities studied, such as the migration (which today is characterized by its high intensity) to United States. It would be difficult to understand the agricultural and migration dynamics in the region of study, but the policies are studied to the Mexican countryside that the State promoted since land distribution occurred, hence the importance of analysis. Township studio, located in the western region of Michoacán or, more precisely in the Michoacán Ciénega of Chapala is within this strategic regional enclave from where President Lazaro Cardenas initiated the agrarian distribution. Hence in this region after taking the long-awaited deal was also a place where he was promoted and boosted agricultural modernization with the strategies of the "green revolution". Both land distribution and agricultural modernization have been two moments or key events in the history of the town of Ixtlán that are taken in this work and we help to understand the productive dynamics of the region, but also migration and evolution