The etnic multiterritoriality and the people of south. A case of study in Sonora, Mexico

Abstract

In this article I present, on the one hand, a reflection and a methodological theoretical proposal to approach the study of the places or the ethnic territoriality of ethnolinguistic groups that for several years have migrated to the northwest of Mexico. On the other hand, I present two ethnographic cases of how the nahuas and zapotec migrants arrived in Sonora, Mexico; they live a settlement process and what are the territorial strategies that allow them to build a place in the northwest of our country. These places are part of a broad socio-territorial system that includes the territories of origin, the "new settlements" and, in some cases, other places in the United States. The concepts of territoriality and multiterritoriality are discussed, assuming that the latter is constructed by the ethnolinguistic groups, of the cases presented, as ethnic territorial strategies for the conformation of a own experience proposal and to articulate the geographical spaces. The new places where people migrate are no longer just work spaces, but also places where ethnic identity is recreated.