caa a22 4500 445806990 CHVBK 20180317145159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-010-9371-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-010-9371-x How Does Out-Migration Affect Community Institutions? A Study of Two Indigenous Municipalities in Oaxaca, Mexico [Elektronische Daten] [James Robson, Fikret Berkes] This paper investigates the impact of human out-migration on long-standing commons institutions in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca. Local communities have been increasingly engaged with national and international markets for wage labour, with many losing a significant percentage of their resident populations. This paper shows how demographic and cultural change is impacting the two social institutions—cargos and tequios—that underpin the highly autonomous form of governance the region is famed for. The loss of able-bodied men and women has meant that these customary systems are struggling to remain operational. A number of responses and institutional adaptations have been introduced by community authorities, including the forging of translocal ties that show potential for reducing the vulnerability of affected villages. While migration was temporary or circular from the 1970s to the 1990s, more permanent forms of migration have come to dominate since that time. Such a shift undermines adaptation efforts at the community level. Within this context, the lessons for commons theory are discussed, while a new layer of complexity is added to the body of work examining the consequences of rural depopulation on Mexican village life and landscapes. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Commons nationallicence Institutions nationallicence Demographic change nationallicence Out-migration nationallicence Zapotec nationallicence Chinantec nationallicence Mexico nationallicence Robson James Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 70 Dysart Road, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada aut Berkes Fikret Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 70 Dysart Road, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/2(2011-04-01), 179-190 0300-7839 39:2<179 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9371-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9371-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Robson James Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 70 Dysart Road, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berkes Fikret Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 70 Dysart Road, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/2(2011-04-01), 179-190 0300-7839 39:2<179 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer