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Gender equality, community divisions, and autonomy: TheProsperaconditional cash transfer program in Chiapas, Mexico
- Source :
- Current Sociology. 64:447-469
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- This article examines the gender equality component of Prospera, a conditional cash transfer program in Mexico that provides cash contingent on three nodes of civic engagement: health, nutrition, and education. This article draws on ethnographic research in La Gloria, a settlement of indigenous Mayan refugees from Guatemala in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The article identifies the Prospera program’s neoliberal features, the impact its gender equality measures have in the lives of women, their families, and in the political structure of the community of La Gloria. The findings reveal how Prospera reinforces gender and racial hierarchy, and fosters community divisions that undercut efforts to promote community autonomy, which raises questions about the ability of conditional cash transfers to promote development and gender equality in indigenous communities in Mexico.
- Subjects :
- Gender equality
Sociology and Political Science
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05 social sciences
Conditional cash transfer
0507 social and economic geography
0506 political science
Cash
Component (UML)
Development economics
050602 political science & public administration
Civic engagement
Demographic economics
Sociology
050703 geography
Autonomy
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14617064 and 00113921
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Sociology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........16ea364092c99b2ac34a0b665db1fcc1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392115593785