The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Migration Processes in Sinaloa, 1985-2005 Region and Society

The economic transformations in Mexico's productive sectors since the 1980s have caused Sinaloa to become a state that expels skilled workers, while at the same time attracting a large number of indigenous people. The protagonists of immigration and emigration are workers of different types; the former is mainly made up of groups of indigenous peasants of scarce resources from the south of the country, while part of the emigration is made up of highly educated Sinaloans who, not finding better life prospects, choose to go to the northern states of the country and to the United States.