Artículos de investigación: Recent submissions
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Mexicanos calificados y deseosos de trabajar: políticas de empleo y agrupaciones sindicales en la industria ferroviaria bajacaliforniana (1902-1955)
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2015-04-07)This article analyzes the conflict that existed between the Mexican labor force and the foreign-owned railway companies –subsidiaries of the San Francisco-based Southern Pacific Railroad– which operated in the cross-border ... -
Mercado de trabajo rural y precarización: nuevas condiciones socioeconómicas en el sur del Estado de México
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2015-04-07)This article presents the results of a study of the rural labor market and its insecurity in the municipality of Coatepec Harinas, in southern Estado de México. Results show the occupational diversity prevailing in that ... -
Unionization and labor precariousness in Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)This study analyzes the relationship between unionization and labor precariousness in Mexico by using a quantitative methodology based on micro data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography’s National Survey ... -
Low birth weight and congenital defects in connection with mine sites and agricultural fields in Sonora, Mexico. 2008-2012 prevalence
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)There is evidence of environmental contamination due to mines and agricultural fields in Sonora, Mexico. Objective: to spatially study the prevalence of birth defects (BD), neural tube defects (NTD) and low birth weight ... -
Production and consumption of tortillas as a cultural heritage of San Pedro del Rosal, Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)Planting and consumption of maize are identity and determining activities in the evolution of population’s food heritage, since they contribute to food security and preservation of the biocultural heritage. Based on ... -
In the heat of masculinity. Climate, migration and gender regulations in Costa de Hermosillo, Sonora
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)In this study on migrant agricultural workers in the Costa de Hermosillo, Sonora, we present a first analytical and descriptive approximation of the interaction between climate and masculinity in northwestern Mexico. Through ... -
Forest activity in the economic development of Chignahuapan, Puebla
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-05-07)The objective of this study was to measure the impact of forestry activity in Chignahuapan, Puebla, in order to determine its interrelation with other activities, and to identify whether it boosts the municipality’s economy ... -
Constant and changing hazards in the social perception of hazardscape in the city of Mexicali
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)The article explores the changes in the social perception of hazardscape in the city of Mexicali, México in 2006 and 2011. This is done by comparing the number and type of hazards that residents reported in two local ... -
Employment in the tertiary sector. A spatial estimation for municipalities in Mexico’s central region, 1999-2009
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)The aim is to identify an agglomeration pattern in the services sector’s spatial division of employment among municipalities in Mexico’s central region. By using the method of spatial econometrics, a spatial error model ... -
Políticas ambientales en México. El caso de los contaminantes orgánicos persistentes
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2015-04-07)This article examines the effect of the use of information on participation and decision-making during the development of Mexico’s National Implementation Plan (nip) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic ... -
Demand and provision of public transportation in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-07-05)Since a couple of years ago public transportation systems are facing a crisis, as a result of a fall in the quality of the service, as well as a degradation or reduction of the fleet. As a consequence, some cities face ... -
The modern urban heritage in northern Mexico: the new 19th-century towns and colonies
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-07-05)This article suggests that the discussion of the values of modern heritage, in terms of architecture and urbanism, requires reviewing what happened with the founding of cities in the 19th century. The roots of modern ... -
Socio-spatial segregation in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, 1990-2010
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)The aim of this article is to analyze socio-spatial segregation in the municipality of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, in order to answer the research question: what are the main characteristics of spatial distribution of ... -
Determinants of tourist competitiveness in Mexican sun and beach destinations
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)This study is aimed at determining whether the agents of risk, such as the resident population and the visitors, can perceive the competitiveness factors of tourist destinations. In order to achieve this goal the state of ... -
Cupatitzio River's water: the stucturing of a socio-economic region in the center of Michoacan
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-07-05)This paper aims to explain the socio-economic development process experienced in the central region of Michoacan, Mexico, an area between the temperate lands in the vicinity of Uruapan and the lowlands to the south of this ... -
Valoración económica de bienes públicos: estudio de caso del río Lerma, La Piedad, Michoacán
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2015-04-07)The section of the Lerma River that crosses the metropolitan area of La Piedad de Cabadas, Michoacán-Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato, has a length of approximately 12.8 km. It has now become a waste channel which has impacted ... -
El valor de los servicios ambientales en la cuenca baja del río Mayo
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2015-04-07)This article discusses and proposes an ecosystem valuation of the lower Mayo River watershed, in northwestern Mexico, where economic activities have impacted services and replaced natural ecosystems in most of the territory. ... -
Mapping of actors and formation of bodies of fishing participation
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)Management of fisheries includes numerous sectors with different interests; thus, in order to reconcile these, the establishment of bodies of co-management bodies is suggested. Their formation begins with the selection of ... -
Institutional trust and structural violence in Nogales, Sonora
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)In Mexico, violence has increased exponentially in recent years. It is a social construct with multifactorial and multicausal elements that must be contained and controlled through prevention measures and citizen participation ... -
Elderly women’s vulnerability, work and health in Ameca, Jalisco
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-01-01)This research analyzes the living conditions of elderly people, especially women, in Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico. Examining their situation from a gender perspective enables us to show the complexity of the relationships ...