Actividades de reproducción social doméstica en la zona Ixtlera mexicana. Mujeres, redes y bienestar social.

This article shares the results of a research project whose objective is the study of the domestic social reproduction of families in an ejido at the south of Nuevo León state, in the Ixtlera region of the Chihuahuan Desert. This ejido is representative of the small towns scattered throughout the five states of the semi-arid Mexican northeast region, identified by its marginalized poor settlements. Domestic social reproduction describes the needs satisfying process of social subjects, which settles a situation of social well-being. This study is based on a mixed methodology design, which helped to collect quantitative and qualitative data, through data-collection techniques such as semistructured interviews, direct observation and a household survey; Field work was be carried out between 2020 and 2022. The results of this study describe who carry out the domestic social reproduction activities related to health and education; domestic work and supply and construction and maintenance of housing. In the conclusions, we try to set these activities as part of a broader process of social reproduction of families, which articulates other practices, conditions and dynamics in the economic, political and cultural spheres; and delimited and defined by the conditions of the environmental structure typical of the arid and semi-arid zones of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]