Transformation Processes in International Migration as a Strategy of Family Life and Community Organization

Abstract

In the studies on life strategies (livelihoods) underlies the intention to analyze, how does the population that cannot receive a sufficient income to meet their needs materially subsist? Even though this concept has been linked, among others, with that of survival and reproduction strategies, family survival and existence, life strategies refer to the set of actions that families set to meet their needs for food, housing, education, healthcare, clothing and others. This is to say, life strategies incorporate the set of [socially determined] behaviors that secure biological reproduction and optimize the material and non-material conditions of the social agents’ existence [according to their social position]. This is why, they represent a pattern of reproduction activities that comes from the coordination between actors and is determined according to the processes of social differentiation and power relations.