Abstract EN:

This research is organized round the principal question : "What predisposes a few rural migrants to emigrate to a rural locality, while the majority prefer to emigrate to the more populous towns ?" This study has concentrated its area of scrutiny on the South-East meso-region of Mexico where the population has reached an historical unprecedented mass on this maya plain. This location allows the researcher to test the assumption that indiginous Indian people of this locale are the first affected by the rural-rural migration. Basing the study on this perspective, the Yucatan Peninsula offers an exemplary field of research for two reasons. In the first place, the yucateco mayas have traditionally migrated between the boundaries of this locale. And in the second place, on a more contemporary level, the localization of the present-day production systems contribute to renew the function of the Yucatan Peninsula as a place of refuge to the whole of the South-East mayas and, in fact, to a certain degree, to the totality of the Mexican native mosaic. . .