Making futures in Oaxaca: Remittances in the diverse economies of social reproduction

• DOI: 10.1111/tran.12659
• Publication Date: 2024-01-16T10:33:26Z
• Authors: Araby Smyth
• Keywords: Social Reproduction

Abstract In this article, I analyse intermingling economically productive and reproductive work at the global local scale through lens of how remittances are folded into communal social relations one Indigenous community in Oaxaca. Scholars have illustrated many ways that reproduction is reconfigured transnational labour migration, troubled categorisation socially labour. Expanding on their work, engage with scholarship about governance Guatemala Mexico, particularly theories Gladys Tzul reproduction, order to present new insights feminist geographical knowledge diverse economies reproduction. Drawing ethnographic methods, three empirical examples, which illustrate economic production life make futures. argue large‐scale activities, such as those deployed by community, produce values beyond capitalist circuits it inserted render money valuable for reproducing securing a future.