Educación y redes sociales en las vidas laborales de migrantes

Abstract

Migratory flows have a heterogeneous dynamic. For some, the search for better life conditions is related to their professional skills and abilities that allow labor insertion lead to their success as migrants. For some other migratory groups, like the Mexicans, the ducational factor, as a part of human capital, goes into second term, they use networks and family or friendship ties to allow their labor insertion. Therefore, the possibility of inserting themselves will be related to the type of social networks that they count on and to the density or reach these have. In that same network, they will be able to train and shape labor niches that could open up opportunities for other migrants, that being in the same conditions, will make use of these networks to get a job. We use a series of readings that have had their peak for a decade, to analyze the findings of the field work that we made in California in 2007, 2009 and 2012. In which deep interviews were made to migrant workers natives to the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.