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This article analyzes the migratory experience of a group of Chiapanecan youngsters of Tojolabal origin from the municipality of Las Margaritas, Chiapas, who migrated to the United States between 2003 and 2006. These young people were the irst people to engage in the a migration adventure, which enables us to what gives us the possibility of closely observe the emergence of a transnational migration process from an area where this kind of phenomenon had not previously existed. The main objective of this paper is to show how Chiapanecan youngsters have managed to build up their migration processes on their own within a context characterized by unstable and fragmented social conditions-typical of the present capitalist system-that have obliged them to change their living and working places continuously, as well as living with uncertainty and at risk. In other words, the author is interested in showing the personal and collective solutions that these new migrants have found in order to adapt to and work in a context deined by what Richard Sennet has called the culture of new capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes how, although the emigration of Chiapas residents to the United States is a recent phenomenon, it has its roots in internal migrations to increasingly distant places. The author traces its development from 1925 to 2003, describing some of the salient characteristics of these migrants: such as the means of transport used to reach the northern border, sources of financing for carrying out the trip, the migratory experience, crossing points, municipalities of origin and places of destination, using data from the Survey on Migration from Mexico's Northern Border. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]