Dissertations / Theses: 'Family, mexico'

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Tuiran-Gutierrez, Rodolfo Alfredo. "Demographic change and family and non family related life course in contemporary Mexico /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Frias-Armenta, Martha. "Law, psychology, family relations and child abuse in Mexico." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288957.

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The purpose of this study was to empirically assess the validity of legal assumptions regarding the use of physical punishment by Mexican parents with their children. Three legal assumptions were identified and tested in the studied Mexican legal framework: (1) parents always act in the best interest of their children; (2) non-severe physical punishment is an adequate and nonharmful strategy for rising children; and (3) parents discriminate between moderate/corrective punishment and severe child abuse. One hundred-fifty mothers living in the Northwestern Mexican State of Sonora were interviewed regarding their use of physical punishment with their children, their knowledge of the law regarding their and their children's' rights and duties, their perceptions of their legal obligations in regard to their disciplinary practices with their children, their disciplinary beliefs, their monitoring of their children, the frequency of maltreatment they received from their parents, their levels of depression/anxiety, their antisocial behaviors, and their alcohol consumption levels. In order to validate the legal assumptions, three structural models were specified and tested. The first model tested the assumption that physical punishment is used in the best interest of children. In this model, the perception of a legal prerogative to use physical punishment was found to increase violence against children. In contrast, parental knowledge of child and parental rights and obligations was inversely related to punitive disciplinary beliefs, while such beliefs were positively associated with child punishment and negatively associated with child monitoring. The second model estimated the effect of a history of mothers' vicitimization during childhood on their adult behavior. It was found that being maltreated as a child was associated positively with antisocial behavior and depression/anxiety, which in turn affected positively alcohol consumption and harsh parenting. The third model estimated the covariance between moderate punishment and severe punishment. Results showed that the correlation between them was higher than the factor loadings between each latent construct and their corresponding observed variables. This finding indicates that parents do not discriminate between moderate and severe punishment, invalidating the assumption that parents are aware of limits between what can be considered abuse and disciplinary punishment. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Marks, Alex D. "Reproductive Ecology of Dragonfishes (Family: Stomiidae) in the Gulf of Mexico." NSUWorks, 2016. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/422.

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The most speciose group of fishes in the Gulf of Mexico is the dragonfishes (Family: Stomiidae). These fishes are dominant mesopelagic predators occurring throughout the world’s oceans, including the Antarctic seas. Little is known regarding their reproductive ecology, a consequence attributed to insufficient sample sizes of mature adults due to inadequacies of sampling gear; larger, sexually mature stomiid adults are more adept at net avoidance, thereby obfuscating synoptic reproductive biology studies. Between 2010-2011, the Offshore Nekton Sampling and Analysis Program was initiated in the northern Gulf of Mexico over all four seasons using a discrete-depth sampling system (MOCNESS) and a large, commercial-sized midwater trawl (Irish herring trawl). Gonads were dissected from 714 individuals belonging to 47 species of stomiids, of which the most 12 abundant species were subjected to detailed analysis. Female ovaries possessed an asynchronous oocyte development, suggesting that females are iteroparous. Males exhibited a similar pattern. Chauliodus sloani had an overall sex ratio that favored females, and was the only species in which the overall sex ratio significantly differed from the expected 1:1 ratio (male:female) (P < 0.05). Considering just mature specimens, Aristostomias xenostoma, Malacosteus niger, Eustomias fissibarbis, and Eustomias schmidti had sex ratios that favored males, and were the only species in which the sex ratio significantly differed from even (P < 0.05). Eustomias hypopsilus was the only species in which mean biomass significantly differed between sexes. Histological analysis and binomial regression indicated that females of the 12 most abundant species matured at larger lengths than males. Generally, only females were present in the larger size classes, suggesting that females also become larger than males. Size distribution plots by gear type to assess gear selectivity revealed two patterns: the MOCNESS caught fewer specimens per species than the Irish herring trawl, and the MOCNESS caught predominantly smaller specimens. These data are essential for ecosystem-based modeling of global deep-pelagic ecosystems, which contain the overwhelming majority of Earth’s fish biomass.

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Thompson, Mary Summers. "The social context of family planning policy in highland Chiapas, Mexico." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4587/.

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This thesis focuses on the concept of informed choice in family planning and how numerical and systematic targeting aimed at raising the numbers of contraceptive acceptors fundamentally undermines this concept in highland Chiapas. The Government of Mexico’s policy aims within its Reproductive Health Programme (1995-2000) are to reduce the total fertility rate whilst promoting reproductive health services and family planning choices. Though Mexico has seen a decline in its total fertility rate attributed to increased contraceptive use in urban areas, in rural parts the rate remains high. Consequently, the rural poor, and in Chiapas overwhelmingly indigenous populations, have become a major target of the Reproductive Health Programme. Monthly targets are set for clinics and family planning services are offered systematically every time a woman attends a clinic for whatever reason. Amongst the factors which must be accounted for in assessing family planning provision in highland Chiapas are cultural differences between mestizo providers and the indigenous target groups as well as local economic and political conditions. Presently, the state of Chiapas is highly militarised and under the cloud of a low intensity war precipitated by the Zapatista uprising in 1994. The provision of any kind of health services is difficult under these situations, but more so what one considers the distrust sown between some indigenous communities and the government Who provide the health services. This thesis examines the practicalities of implementing a global policy at a local level and the constraints faced by both providers and intended recipients in the social context of Los Altos. Mindful of the care required in identification most people in this thesis (with the exception of a few well-known academics) appear under pseudonyms.

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Mirando, Caso Luengo Alfonso. "An analysis of fertility behaviour in Mexico." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59454/.

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In the last few decades female permanent sterilization became the most used contraception method in Mexico. During this time the demand for short-term contraceptives fell consistently. The shift in the demand for contraceptives raises concerns among demographers that the timing of children may remain unchanged regardless of the observed reductions in period fertility rates. After presenting a brief discussion of the economic theory on fertility behaviour (Chapter 2) and introducing the reader to the main demographic issues of modem Mexico (Chapter 3), Chapter 4 assesses these ideas in the context of modelling the timing of a first child, using duration models as main analysis tool. Findings suggest that young cohorts of women are effectively delaying first birth relative to the experience of older generations. Chapter 5 reports a study of the determinants of completed fertility. Special attention is given to studying how characteristics such as religion and ethnic group affect the likelihood of transition from low to high order parities. An innovative Double-Hurdle count model is developed for the analysis. Findings indicate that education and Catholicism are associated with reductions in the likelihood of transition from parities lower than four to high order parities. Being an indigenous language speaker increases the odds of a large family. Chapter 6 enquires how fertility plans of young individuals who live in intact families (i.e., those where both biological parents are present) differ from fertility plans of young individuals who live in non-intact families. The role of family background in the formation of fertility plans is studied. Count data models are used in the analysis, including an innovative technique for estimating quantile regression for count data. Findings suggest that an absent father reduces planned fertility, especially when women have weak preferences towards children. Education decreases planned fertility if strong preferences towards children are felt.

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Hurst, Elizabeth Mary. "Keep it tight : family, learning and social transformation in New Mexico, United States." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16008.

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This dissertation examines learning as part of social transformation in a semi-rural town in New Mexico, United States. It incorporates a focus on young people through direct work with children and observations in school and argues that each person's understanding is historically emergent from what sense they make of the events of their personal history as this unfolds over time in intersubjective relations with others. This has implications for the ways in which Hispano/a and Latino/a people living in “Bosque Verde” make sense of concepts like respect, hard work and obligation, as well as how they think about family and children's wellbeing. The ways in which people experience and understand getting older and their movements from child to adult/parent and from parent to grandparent/elder are central to this process of making sense. As people age, what they know to be true transforms, as does how they perceive the effects of social change. For people living in Bosque Verde, this includes both the experience of contemporary social and economic shifts in New Mexico and the United States, as well as how people there have made sense of social marginalisation over the past century and back into the more distant past. Parents and elders manifest historical consciousness of these transformations in part through their concerns for children and their vulnerability in an insecure and unequal world. Children, however, constitute their own ideas about family, hard work, care and respect in ways that potentially transform their meaning, as well as the possibilities of their own futures. This thesis therefore describes ‘keeping it tight' in Bosque Verde as a microhistorical process that shapes how people understand and experience social relationships over the lifetime. This process, in turn, influences how people living there make sense of the past and imagine the future for themselves and others.

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Sprouse, Terry Wayne 1953. "Household labor decisions and migration in San Luis Potosi, Mexico." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277988.

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In central Mexico's semi-arid highlands, it is common practice for ejidatarios (members of a communal farm, or ejido) to migrate to the United States and other parts of Mexico in order to generate enough household income. Economic and demographic traits within the household affect the decision of an ejidatario to migrate. This thesis examines the effects of those traits on migration decisions. Migration data and household characteristics were collected from 169 ejidatario families (1415 individual family members) from four ejidos in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In addition, representatives of various governmental and non-governmental organizations who work with the ejidos were interviewed.

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Bustani, Garcia Diana Maria. "Internal capital allocation and financial performance in family business groups| Evidence from Mexico." Thesis, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3570882.

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This research analyzes the internal capital allocation decisions in Mexican family business groups using a novel approach in which allocation decisions are not only influenced by efficiency (firm performance) but also by the social connections among the managers of the funded firms and the family that controls the group. The results suggest that family ownership and group affiliation have economically large effects on firm performance, meaning that family firms outperform non-family firms and, within family firms, those affiliated with a business group exhibit higher performance than those standing alone. These findings also indicate that professional-managed firms outperform family-managed firms, except when the CEO is the founder of the firm; implying that founders have a personal bias toward their offspring because more competent individuals are not considered to manage the firm. Additional analysis reveals that the internal capital allocation process in Mexico is inefficient because there are strong nepotism practices that favor family managers over non-family managers. These socialist tendencies are aligned with the dark side theories of internal capital allocation, in which weak-performing firms receive too much capital (family-managed firms) and strong-performing firms receive too little (non-family-managed firms).

Keywords: Capital allocation, family business groups, social connections, corporate governance.

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Loury, Sharon D., and Ardis Nelson. "Family Ties: Connecting Migrant Families in Rural TN with their Families in Mexico." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8195.

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Malkin, Victoria Sara Grey. "Gender and family in transmigrant circuits : transnational migration between Western Mexico and the United States." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313745.

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Granados, Luis Fernando. "Cosmopolitan Indians and Mesoamerican barrios in Bourbon Mexico City tribute, community, family and work in 1800 /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436715873/viewonline.

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Mickens, Melody N. "TODO EN LA FAMILIA: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MS IMPAIRMENTS, FAMILY NEEDS, AND CAREGIVER MENTAL HEALTH IN GUADALAJARA, MEXICO." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3930.

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Individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), especially those living in Latin America, often require assistance from family caregivers throughout the duration of disease. Previous findings suggest that family caregivers may experience positive and negative effects from providing care to individuals with MS, but few studies have examined the impact of MS caregiving on caregivers from Latin America. The current study examined the relationships between MS impairments (functional, neurological, cognitive, behavioral and emotional), unmet family needs (household, informational, financial, social support, health), and caregiver psychosocial functioning (satisfaction with life, anxiety, burden, and depression) in a sample of 81 MS caregivers from Guadalajara, Mexico. Canonical correlations revealed that behavioral impairments were associated with higher burden and decreased satisfaction with life, and that unmet financial, social support, and informational needs were associated with higher caregiver burden. A structural equation model demonstrated the meditational effect of unmet family needs on the relationship between MS impairments and caregiver mental health. These findings suggest that interventions for MS caregivers in Latin America should focus on reducing caregiver burden by addressing unmet family needs for information, financial, and social support while teaching caregivers ways to manage the patient’s behavioral symptoms.

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Colunga, Elizabeth H. "¿Cuándo te Veré? “When Will I See You?”." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84192/.

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This film examines the phenomenon of a family divided by the U.S.-Mexico border. Saul, the head of the family, migrated north in search of a better life for his wife and children while they stayed behind in Mexico. Not having the documents to cross the border has resulted in being apart from his family for more than ten years. This is a story about separation, pain, and the ultimate sacrifice a family makes as a means of survival.

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Citeroni, Tracy Beth. "Neither sage nor servant : a sociological interpretation of older women's narrative perceptions of self, family, and social support (Cuernavaca, Mexico) /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9905715.

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Espinoza, Aguiló Tomás. "Founding Family Ownership and Firm Performance: — Evidence from the Mexican Stock Exchange." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2009. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/107985.

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Nosotros investigamos si existe alguna diferencia en el desempeño de las compañías familiares relativo a las no familiares, considerando una muestra del total de compañías de la bolsa de valores de México, para el periodo 2000-2009(3), donde 56 de 99 firmas fueron consideradas familiares. Explicamos la diferencia de desempeño de las compañías a partir del ROA y ROE, realizando un test de diferencia de medias entre los dos grupos de firmas para luego confirmar nuestros resultados con un análisis multivariado. Nosotros encontramos que las compañías familiares presentan un desempeño significativamente mejor que las compañías no familiares, dado un grupo de ventajas que estas presentan.
We investigate whether there is any difference in the performance of family companies on the non-family, considering a sample of the total companies in the Market Stock Exchange of Mexico, for the period 2000-2009 (3), where 56 of 99 firms were considered family. We explain the difference in performance of companies from the ROA and ROE, by a difference of mean test, between the two groups of firms and then confirm our results with multivariate analysis. We found that family companies have performed significantly better than non-family companies, given a set of advantages these present.

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BORBOA, BADILLA ROMAN ALFONSO. "AN ADLERIAN MOTHERS STUDY GROUP IN A MEXICAN COMMUNITY." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187994.

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The purpose of this study was to validate the Adlerian Parenting Educational Model (APEM) as a means of improving parent-child relationships in urban, Mexican families as measured by the movement toward the development of willingness to contribute and cooperate by family members. Research problems and their corresponding hypotheses were formulated to facilitate the validation of the model. The subjects were 42 mothers whose children attended a preschool program in the geographical area of Caborca, Sonora, Mexico. Each subject was actively committed and willing to participate in the APEM. The study utilized a pretest-posttest control group design to obtain an indication of mothers' development of positive changes in their child's behavior and effectiveness in allowing their children to make more positive changes in their behavior as measured by the Social Interest Index, the Adlerian Parental Assessment of Child Behavior Scale, and the Behavior Concepts Inventory: Educational Model. All subjects were administered each instrument prior to the first session to determine their degree of social interest, understanding of Adlerian principles, and potential behavioral areas for mother and children to work with. The two methods of analysis employed, a test of differences between means and a test of homogeneity of variance, revealed that mothers in the treatment group of this program experienced more positive interpersonal relationships among family members, a more positive attitude toward themselves, positive changes in their perceptions of their child's behavior, a more thorough understanding of Adlerian principles, and related more positively to their children than mothers in a control group. The study presented a number of implications for further research and indicate that the APEM may be applied to different groups.

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Fainsilber, Ricardo. "Emotional dynamics of the family business in Mexico and the United States| A qualitative exploration." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10183264.

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Family businesses are critical to the economy and quality of life of over 50% of the world’s population (European Family Businesses, 2012, p.2). Prevalent as they are, scant research exists with regard to the emotional, every day aspects.

This study included people who have participated in a family business for at least 5 years, either in Mexico or the United States. The aim of this thematic analysis study is to highlight the complexities of the psychological–emotional aspects affecting family businesses and to qualify Mexican and United States cultural aspects capable of influencing the operation of family businesses.

Data were generated through semistructured interviews with 12 participants. The analysis produced three core themes. First, in the business and family confluence, the identity of families who own businesses was explored. The main findings were: feelings of pressure to join in family businesses experienced by heirs to these businesses, difficulties in the process of transferring leadership of the businesses, and the concern of families to maintain a positive public image.

Second, relationship issues of family businesses were explored. The main participants found in a family business were identified as the originator, the son/daughter, the spouse, and the trusted employee. An exploration of their roles and how they interacted yielded two themes: conflict and boundaries. Multilayered, complex relationships make for difficult-to-manage dynamics in both business and family. Exploring the boundaries produced a unified systems perspective, suggesting that there is more permeability between subsystems in a family business than traditional approaches imply.

Finally, in the intersection of culture, family, and business, three themes emerged. First, individualism versus collectivism in the family business: U.S. participants experienced family expectations as external demands that reduced their sense of agency. Mexican participants appeared to foster group entrenchment, but with support. Second, levels of affect in interpersonal relationships were high in Mexican families, whereas U.S. participants were more open to discussing issues while keeping greater emotional distance. Third, the power dynamics of U.S. families seemed to be characterized by a challenge to authority; their Mexican counterparts were found to be highly hierarchical and patriarchal dependent.

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HernaÌndez, Licona Gonzalo. "The effect of household poverty on participation, working hours and unemployment in urban Mexico." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319150.

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Espino, Ramón Patiño. "Strong cooperativeness and family reproductive ecology : an overview of the communitarian life among Totonacas from Mexico." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494073.

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Young Kgoyomes (Indigenous Totonacas from the rural highlands of Huehuetla district in Mexico) were asked to state their principal moral values. The following 4 concepts in order represent 84% of their choices: (a) life, (b) close relatives, (c) money, and (d) health. The remaining 16% spread across 18 different concepts. At the level of intersexual dyads, the characteristics both sexes found most attractive in the other were: a) being a hard worker, (b) faithfulness, (c) prettiness/handsomeness, and (d) good-heartedness. These represented 58.7 % of men's preferences and 55.8 %> of women's in a prospective partner, with the remaining percentages split across 18 different characteristics. Such an affinity between the sexes has probably facilitated the "assortative" selection of a partner, producing marriages which are highly monogamous and harmonised for hard work. Another example of 'pro-social sentiment' is the precocious age at which they start to 'help at the nest', i.e. from 5 years old onwards, and by the age of 10, 58.4 % are already engaged in a variety of tasks for helping the family.

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Caceres, Hugo H. "Towards a spiritual growth ministry for the Seventh Day Adventist family in the Chiapas State, Mexico." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Dotson-Blake, Kylie Phares. "A praxis of empowerment: Critically exploring family-school-community partnerships in Mexico and the United States." W&M ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154052.

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Goode, Catherine Tracy. "Power in the Peripheries: Family Business and the Global Reach of the 18th-Century Spanish Empire." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228178.

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Through the investigation of the strategies and tactics the San Juan de Santa Cruz family used in local contexts, this study demonstrates how Spanish colonists were able to access the global economy. Beyond the construction of family and political networks, the brothers connected the peripheries of Manila- Acapulco, Veracruz, and Nueva Vizcaya in order to manage and expand their family business empire beyond the cores of Mexico City or the crown in Spain. Each chapter of the dissertation focuses on the local strategies employed by Francisco and Manuel in particular peripheries, and investigates the links created by the family between peripheral locations in an effort to access the global economy, avoiding core areas in the process. Relying on the conceptual language of Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system, but following a creative opening cracked by Andre Gunder Frank, this study posits a multi- polar world system in which there were multiple cores, namely Asia, Mexico, and Europe. Mexico is centered in this study as a core that controls aspects of Europe's access to the commanding Asian export economy. The role of peripheries within the Mexican core provides an opportunity to reevaluate the relationship of cores to peripheries, and illustrates the role of merchant- bureaucrats, located in the Americas, in the early modern world economy.

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González, Manuel Alberto Castillo. "The legalization of intimacy in Mexico." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17364.

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DIE LEGALISIERUNG DER INTIMITÄT IN MEXIKO von Manuel Castillo Diese Dissertation wurde zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doctor iuris (Dr. iur.) an der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Deutschland vorgelegt. Das Hauptthema der Forschung ist die Legalisierung der Intimität, am Fallbeispiel des mexikanischen Rechts. Mit der Prämisse, dass das Recht auf Intimität sich aus dem Recht auf Privatsphäre ergibt, bespricht diese Forschungsarbeit die grundlegenden Menschenrechte, die einen Rahmen für die Legalisierung der Intimität ermöglichen. Die Einführung, der Sphären und Strukturen der Intimität, liefert eine Vorgehensweise zur Analyse dieses Themas. Es erfolgt eine Betrachtung der Frage der Geschlechter in ihrer Beziehung mit dem Recht und der Intimität. Aus einer „queer“ Perspektive hinterfragt diese Dissertation die Gleichstellung von Ehe und gleichgeschlechtlicher Ehe, mit dem Argument, ob eine neue Form der Legalisierung der Intimität für alle notwendig ist. Darüber hinaus, liefert diese Arbeit eine vergleichende Bewertung der mexikanischen Rechtsvorschriften im Rahmen des Völkerrechts. Am Ende der Dissertation, wird ein Vorschlag zur Legalisierung der Intimität im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert dargeboten.
THE LEGALIZATION OF INTIMACY IN MEXICO by Manuel Castillo This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor iuris (Dr. iur.) at the Faculty of Law, of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. The main scope of the research is the legalization of intimacy, using Mexican law as a case study. Considering that the right to intimacy arises from the right to privacy, this research discusses the fundamental human rights that constitute a framework for the legalization of intimacy. The research provides an approach to the analysis of this subject that includes what has been introduced as the Spheres of Intimacy and the Structures of Intimacy. The issue of gender is discussed in its relationship with the law and intimacy. From a queer perspective, this dissertation questions the equality of marriage and same-sex marriage, arguing that a new form of legalization of intimacy for all is needed. Furthermore, this study provides a comparative review of Mexican legislations within the framework of international law. At the end, this dissertation offers a proposal for the legalization of intimacy in the twenty-first century.

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Jasa, Silveira Graciela. "Beyond conjugal borders: the impact of jurisdictional boundaries on women's family law rights in Mexico and Québec." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119520.

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Through a critical engagement with the family law modernization framework, this thesis argues for the need to take more seriously the internal and global jurisdictional issues that can arise from top-down, women-centred family law reform. It argues that the problem with the family law modernization thesis lies in its close relationship with the law and development school of thought, which endorses images of consensus, unity and uniformity with respect to family law reform. As an example, this thesis uses a broad political lens first to tease out how family law reforms adopted in Mexico City between 2000 and 2009 were shaped by legal, political and jurisdictional changes to the Mexican capital's Federal District. The thesis then explores Mexico's early and contemporary legal history to uncover how the recognition and development of women's divorce and cohabitation rights in Mexico were influenced by the politics of colonization, independence, federalization and internationalization. As a way to reveal connecting threads between the political dynamics of family law reform in Mexico and Canada, it examines how legal, political and jurisdictional issues in Quebec have had an impact on the development of cohabitation rights. The thesis concludes by examining, from the comparative law perspective, the types of assumptions and lines of thinking that are required within family law scholarship to break with the family law modernization pattern of thinking.
À travers un engagement critique vis-à-vis de la modernisation du droit de la famille, la thèse plaide pour le besoin de prendre davantage au sérieux les questions juridictionnelles globales et locales qui peuvent émaner d'une réforme descendante du droit de la famille axée sur la femme. Elle soutient que le problème lié à la thèse de la modernisation du droit de la famille réside dans sa relation étroite avec l'école de pensée du droit et du développement, laquelle endosse, en ce qui à trait à la réforme du droit de la famille, des images de consensus, d'unité et d'uniformité. À titre d'exemple, cette thèse fait d'abord usage d'un objectif politique général pour éclaircir la façon dont les réformes du droit adoptées à Mexico entre 2000 et 2009 étaient façonnées par des changements légaux, politiques, et juridictionnelles dans le District Fédéral de la capitale mexicaine. La thèse explore ensuite le passé et l'histoire contemporaine du Mexique afin de dévoiler la manière dont la reconnaissance et le développement des droits de divorce et de cohabitation de la femme au Mexique ont été influencés par des politiques de colonisation, d'indépendance, de fédéralisation et d'internalisation. Constituant une façon de révéler des liens qui unissent les dynamiques politiques de la réforme du droit de la famille au Mexique à celles qui se manifestent au Canada, la thèse examine la façon dont des questions légales, politiques, et juridictionnelles au Québec ont eu un impact sur le développement des droits de cohabitation. La thèse conclut en examinant, dans une perspective de droit comparé, les pistes de réflexion et les types d'hypothèses qui seraient doctrinalement nécessaire pour rompre avec le modèle de la modernisation du droit de la famille.

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Zamudio, Leal Gabriel Mario. "A Cross-Cultural Study of Adult Attachment, Social Self-Efficacy, Familismo, and Psychological Wellbeing." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248437/.

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Although Latinos are the largest minority group in the country, research examining how different psychological and cultural variables affect Latino individuals' wellbeing is disproportionately developed and cross-cultural comparison studies are particularly scarce. To address these issues, this dissertation research examined cross-cultural adult attachment-social self-efficacy-psychosocial wellbeing conceptual mediational model while investigating the moderator effects of country membership and familismo on the proposed mediational model using a cross-cultural sample of Mexican and Mexican-American university students. A total of 595 participants, including 360 Mexican students from Mexico and 235 Mexican-American students from the United States completed the research questionnaires. Results indicated that social self-efficacy was a significant mediator for the effects of insecure attachment on life satisfaction and conflict resolution in both cultural groups and for the links between attachment insecurity and depressive symptoms in the Mexican-American group. Additionally, moderated mediation analyses showed that country membership was a significant moderator for the links between attachment avoidance and social self-efficacy when life satisfaction, conflict resolution style, and depressive symptoms were the dependent variables, as well as for the direct link between attachment anxiety and physical health symptoms. Familismo was also found to be a significant moderator for the direct effects of attachment anxiety on physical health symptoms and life satisfaction in both groups. Findings are discussed from the attachment and cross-cultural perspectives. Counseling implications, limitations, and future research directions are offered.

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Sutter, Megan Elizabeth. "FAMILY NEEDS, CAREGIVER BURDEN, AND MENTAL HEALTH: CAREGIVERS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH VARIOUS NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS FROM COLOMBIA AND MEXICO." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3634.

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This cross-sectional study examined differences in family needs (informational, social, financial, health, and household support), caregiver mental health (depression, satisfaction with life, vitality, social functioning, and emotional role limitations), and caregiver burden (personal life, guilt, and psychological) among caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and dementia from cities in Colombia and Mexico (N = 343). The study also examined the connections among family needs, caregiver mental health, and caregiver burden in the combined sample of caregivers of individuals with neurological conditions. Many significant differences were identified among groups, and implications are discussed. Family needs, caregiver mental health, and burden were all robustly associated with each other, with financial and social support needs, depression, and burden-personal life and guilt emerging as particularly important. Clinicians should focus on helping caregivers meet financial and social support needs in order to positively influence caregiver burden and mental health.

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Novotny, Michael. "The Assemblage Structure and Trophic Ecology of a Deep-Pelagic Fish Family (Platytroctidae) in the Gulf of Mexico." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/486.

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Members of the family Platytroctidae (tubeshoulders) are found throughout the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the World Ocean. Due to the lack of specimens collected globally, this taxon has received little attention, despite recent evidence suggesting its predominance in the bathypelagic biome. Prior to this study, only four species had been reported in the Gulf of Mexico’s (GoM) highly diverse deep-pelagic ecosystem. An extensive meso- and bathypelagic trawl series in the GoM allowed a detailed examination of this family, which included analyses of species composition, abundance, vertical distribution, sex ratios, and trophic ecology. A total of 16 species were collected, which included 12 new records for the GoM. The five most-abundant species collected were Mentodus facilis, Platytroctes apus, Barbantus curvifrons, Mentodus mesalirus, and Maulisia microlepis. All platytroctids were collected from tows that extended below 700 m. Mentodus facilis was the only species that significantly differed from the expected 1:1 sex ratio (pMentodus mesalirus and Maulisia microlepis heavily consumed gelatinous zooplankton. Mentodus facilis and Barbantus curvifrons had a more varied diet consuming chaetognaths, copepods, and ostracods, with M. facilis exhibiting a slightly greater reliance on ostracods and gelatinous prey. This study represents the first investigation into the diet of this fish family and adds to the sparse community data of the bathypelagic zone by identifying alternative nutrient pathways (e.g., the fish-jelly link) that connect the deep and upper oceanic ecosystems.

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Frías, Armenta Martha, Irma Rodríguez, and Romero José Gaxiola. "Behavioral and social effects of family violence in Mexican children." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2003. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101361.

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The aim of this study was tome asure effects of domestic violence on children, both child abuse and exposure to marital violence. 300 families were randomly selected in Hermosillo, Sonora, a northwestern Mexican city. Two members of each family were interviewed: the mother anda minor randomly selected among all their children. The research instrument collected demographicinformation, and information regarding mother's and parent's alcohol consumption, marital violence,child abuse, and child misconduct. A structural model was tested which estimated the effects ofchild abuse and exposure to marital violence on child problems. Results showed that the two forms of violence had repercussions on delinquent and antisocial behavior, produced attention problems,depression, anxiety, sadness and the manifestation of somatic symptoms. In addition, mother's education a level had a significant and negative effect on children's behavioral and social problemsand father's educational level inhibited their aggression against their wives. Alcohol consumption was positively related to child abuse. These results seems to indicate that both child abuse andexposure to marital violence rcsult in harmful consequences on children's behavior and well-being.
Se examinan los efectos de la violencia doméstica en niños. Se seleccionaron 300 familias al azaren la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora, México. Se entrevistó a dos miembros de cada familia: la madre y un menor al azar. Se aplicó una batería de instrumentos de información demográfica: datos acerca del consumo de alcohol de los padres, agresiones del padre contra la madre, maltrato que recibían los menores de sus padres y los problemas de conducta infantiles. Al analizar estos datos se obtuvieron estadísticas univariadas. Posteriormente se examinaron las variables utilizando un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales. Los resultados mostraron que tanto el maltrato recibido como el ser testigo de la violencia que recibía la madre, tuvieron repercusiones en la conducta delictiva y antisocial de los menores. Los niños presentaron problemas de atención, ansiedad, depresión, timidez y somatización. El nivel educativo de la madre tuvo un efecto significativo en los problemas de conducta infantil. De la misma manera, la escolaridad de los maridos tuvo un efecto negativo en las agresiones que ellos dirigían contra sus esposas. El consumo de alcohol de los padres se relacion ópositivamente con el maltrato infantil.

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Mejia, Pailles Gabriela. "A life course perspective on social and family formation transitions to adulthood of young men and women in Mexico." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/357/.

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This research examines the trajectories that young men and women in Mexico experienced during their transition to adulthood in the 1980s and 1990s. The study, particularly, considers two groups of significant markers of adulthood: social transitions (leaving education, entry into the labour force, parental home leaving), and family formation transitions (first sex, first partnership, and first birth). The thesis investigates the ways that these transitions were experienced among Mexican youth: first, by establishing the main interactions between social transitions and family formation transitions to adulthood; and second, by providing evidence of the main trajectories followed by young men and women in their passage to adulthood from a life course perspective. Applying Event History techniques to retrospective data from the 2000 Mexican National Youth Survey, results show that young men and women experienced different patterns of trajectories in their transit to adulthood marked by a strong gender component. While young men showed a lag between the experience of social and family formation transitions characterized by work-oriented trajectories, young women often experienced almost simultaneous occurrence of social and family formation transitions leading to predominantly family-oriented trajectories to adulthood. Differences between urban and rural respondents were also found to be significant. Another conclusion of the study is that many young people found great difficulty in obtaining their first job after leaving education, leading to high unemployment. Despite the lack of employment opportunities for Mexican young people, family formation transitions were not substantially postponed until later ages unlike many developed nations. The findings also confirm the importance of education on the experience of transitions to adulthood. The study shows the need to restructure the Mexican educational system to enable young people to work and study simultaneously, without having to leave education immediately after entering the labour force. These findings highlight the need to strengthen and reinforce current education policies to stimulate labour force participation of young women.

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González, Izaguirre Cruz Armando [Verfasser]. "Women's Right to the City : The Family as a Dispositive in Urban Settlements in Mexico / Cruz Armando González Izaguirre." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1204708304/34.

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Pruzinsky, Nina. "Identification and spatiotemporal dynamics of tuna (Family: Scombridae; Tribe: Thunnini) early life stages in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/472.

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Fishes within the family Scombridae (i.e. tunas, mackerels and bonitos) are of high ecological and economic value, as they are heavily targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries. In coastal and open-ocean environments, adults are high-level predators, while larvae and juveniles serve as prey for numerous species. Much is known about the distribution and abundance of adult tunas, but high taxonomic uncertainty and limited knowledge regarding the distributional patterns of larval and juvenile tunas have led to an “operational taxonomic unit” gap in our understanding of tuna ecology. Scombrids were collected across the Gulf of Mexico (GoM, hereafter) during seven research cruises from 2010-2011, as part of the NOAA-supported Offshore Nekton Sampling and Analysis Program, and during five research cruises from 2015-2017, as a part of the GOMRI-supported Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico Consortium. In this thesis, species composition, distribution, and abundance of tunas collected from the surface to 1500 m depth are characterized in relation to depth, time of year, and physical oceanographic features. A synthesis of the morphological characteristics used to identify the taxonomically challenging larval and juvenile stages of tunas is presented, along with length-weight regressions to fill the data gap on the growth patterns of these early life stages. A total of 945 scombrid specimens were collected, representing 11 of the 16 species that occur in the GoM. The dominant species included: Euthynnus alletteratus (Little Tunny), Thunnus atlanticus (Blackfin Tuna), Auxis thazard (Frigate Mackerel), and Katsuwonus pelamis (Skipjack Tuna). Evidence of sampling gear selectivity was observed, with a MOCNESS (rectangular, research-sized trawl) collecting larvae predominantly, and a large, high-speed rope trawl catching only juveniles. Scombrids were collected primarily in the upper 200 m of the water column. Species-specific environmental preferences and seasonality were identified as the main drivers of tuna spatial distributions across the epipelagic GoM. Integrating aspects of scombrid ecology in neritic and oceanic environments improves management and conservation efforts for this highly important taxon.

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Reinschmidt, Kerstin Muller. "Old Colony and General Conference Mennonites in Chihuahua, Mexico: History, representations and women's everyday lives in health and illness." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279881.

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During the early 1920s, Old Colony Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Chihuahua, Mexico in order to continue their traditional ways of life in nearly isolated, agricultural communities. As their ancestors had done for centuries, they continued to live in opposition to "the world." While the Old Colony Mennonites basically succeeded in living their distinct, conservative ideology, economic necessities and real world opportunities caused internal disagreements, excommunications and the formation of a new, liberal church, the General Conference, among their midst. North American Mennonite and some European scholars have recorded the history, political economy, socio-religious organization, linguistic and cultural characteristics of these so-called "Mexican Mennonites." What their large-scale perspectives have failed to capture is the everyday lives of the cultural group, the lives of women in particular. Women's worlds have been invisible in the official discourse on Mennonite history, most of which is male-dominated. This dissertation explores the everyday lives of Mennonites in the colonies near Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua through Mennonite women's eyes. Women's multiple roles at the household level in times of health and illness, and women's moral identities are its focus. Women's habitus and discourses are central in perpetuating Mennonite gendered and moral identities. These identities, expressed in everyday moral living, are the foundation to Mennonite women's health work and local meanings of health. The ethnographic descriptions of women's lives demonstrate how ideology becomes operationalized, and the contrasting of existing literature with my findings exemplifies the articulation of ideology and gender. As an understanding of local Mennonite women's lives requires an appreciation of Mennonite history, socio-economic structure, and the values and norms reproduced by women during their everyday lives, this dissertation has a comprehensive, four-fold structure: Part I summarizes the history of the Mennonites near Cuauhtemoc and analyzes its representational politics; Part II lays out the anthropological processes of fieldwork and writing; Part III describes the contemporary everyday lives of Mennonite women with a focus on their gendered work, including health work, and socializing practice; Part IV discusses the socialization processes of Mennonite women, inherent challenges in Mennonite social structure, and the ways in which Mennonites cope with these challenges.

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Schwenk, Tina. "Maximilian I : a Habsburg on Montezuma's throne." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3433.

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The life and fate of Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico, has attracted a substantial amount of research since his death in 1867. However, these works either only deal with the last few years of Maximilian’s life, from his candidature for the Mexican throne to his death at the hands of the Mexican liberals, or with other aspects of his life such as his time as governor of Lombardy-Venetia. Thus the main aim of this thesis is to offer a biography of Maximilian, which will not only look at Maximilian’s reign as emperor of Mexico but will also examine the Habsburg aspect of the story. It is thus necessary to look at the extent to which his Habsburg upbringing, his education and his experiences as governor of Lombardy-Venetia shaped his idea of kingship; how his travels and his time in Italy conditioned him to regard the “other” in a certain imperial way; and how all these essentially Habsburg experiences and ideas played a part in his failure and demise in Mexico. This thesis will thus aim to give a rounded picture the life and death of Maximilian I by examining his upbringing, his education, and his experiences in the navy and in Lombardy-Venetia. For without an understanding of these it is impossible to fully comprehend Maximilian’s actions in Mexico.

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Wells, Shelley Lorraine. "Grave Matters: A Presentation and Comparative Analysis of the Late Classic Burials from Guajilar, Chiapas, Mexico." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8794.

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This thesis aims to identify the possible origins of the peoples who immigrated into the archaeological sites of Guajilar and Lagartero, located in the upper Grijalva River Basin region in southern Chiapas, Mexico, during the Late Classic period (AD 650-900). First, I present the Late Classic burial data from both sites according to four basic descriptive criteria: burial location, grave type, burial type, and grave goods. Then, I conduct a comparative analysis of the burial practices found at these two sites based on these criteria so that patterns in burial practices can be identified. Following the comparative analysis between Guajilar and Lagartero, I then compare their burial practices to those from two sites in the southern Maya Lowlands (Altar de Sacrificios and Seibal) and those found at various sites in the Guatemala Highlands (which border the upper Grijalva River Basin region to the north and east, respectively). The analysis reveals greater similarities in burial practices with sites in the Guatemala Highlands than with those in the southern Maya Lowlands. This suggests that peoples from the Guatemala Highlands were more likely to have immigrated into Guajilar and Lagartero during the Late Classic period.

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Ortega-Alcazar, Iliana. "Brick by brick : an ethnography of self-help housing, family practices and everyday life in a consolidated popular settlement of Mexico City." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2573/.

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This thesis looks into the connections between built form, everyday life and family practices. It is an ethnographic study of the densification process and the development of multifamily plots in Santo Domingo, that seeks to add texture and complexity to the understanding of everyday life in the consolidated popular settlements of Mexico City more broadly. It is embedded in the research agenda that is concerned with the experience of urban living for the different groups that make up the contemporary city. The following research is grounded in the argument that Santo Domingo - as most consolidated popular settlements in Mexico City - is playing a fundamental role in the provision of housing for the city's low-income population. This has led to an increased densification and to the development of complex multifamily plots. The thesis first analyses how Santo Domingo's multifamily plots have come about and interrogates the nature of the relationship between houses and the families that produce them. It then looks into the question of why families cluster together in a variety of multifamily plots. By focusing on the cultural production of socio-spatial processes, it provides an alternative to understanding family practices and residential arrangements as being either the result of conscious strategies designed by rational agents which aim at maximising their limited resources, or as the mechanic effect of structural conditions. The thesis moves on to examine how, in the present situation of rising densification, families use their increasingly limited space in a tactical way in order to get closer to their ideal socio-spatial arrangement. Finally, it analyses the social consequences of the ongoing process of building that characterises popular settlements like Santo Domingo. It explores how the building of houses is - beyond the struggle to attain adequate shelter - a struggle to build and consolidate families, attain social recognition, and construct a sense of belonging.

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Estrada, Quiroz Liliana. "Quelle place le travail a-t-il dans la vie des enfants ? Le cas des grandes villes du Mexique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100192/document.

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Bien que le travail des enfants semble être une pratique hors du temps, dans l’actualité une partie non négligeable d’enfants — dans les grandes villes du Mexique, ainsi que dans plusieurs pays en développement — travaillent de manière quotidienne. Nous allons tenter de connaître l’importance du travail dans la vie des enfants à travers deux approches : qualitative et quantitative. La première est basée sur des entretiens, que nous avons spécialement réalisés auprès des enfants travailleurs et non travailleurs à Mexico ; la deuxième est appuyée sur une source secondaire, une base de données nationale sur le travail des enfants. Grâce à l’utilisation de ces deux sources complémentaires, nous avons réussi à aborder plusieurs aspects de cette problématique si complexe, en donnant une place privilégiée à la famille et en regardant les enfants travailleurs comme protagonistes dans tout ce qui les concerne. Or, les enfants travailleurs ne représentent pas une population homogène. Nous avons montré que les raisons, les processus de mise au travail, les activités, les conditions, les déterminants et les conséquences varient selon leur domaine de participation (extradomestique ou domestique) et leur lien de parenté avec l’employeur (familial ou non familial). Cependant, les différences ne se limitent pas au terrain des faits, elles s’observent aussi dans les représentations sociales qu’ont les enfants sur les types distincts de travail des enfants. Enfin, des contrastes marqués existent par âges et par sexes, témoignant que des inégalités de genres et de générations touchent déjà les plus jeunes
Although child labour is thought to be an outdated practice, currently a significant proportion of children - in the big cities of Mexico and in many developing countries - are working on a daily basis. We have looked into the importance of work in the lives of children using two different approaches: qualitatitve and quantitative. The first is based on interviews, which we specifically carried out with both working and non-working children in Mexico City; the second approach uses a national database on child labour. By using these two complementary sources, we were able to cover several aspects of this complex problem, in particular by emphasising the role of the family and observing child workers as protagonists in their lives. However, child workers are not a homogeneous population. We have shown that the reasons for working, the type of work, the working conditions, and the determining factors and consequences of working vary according to the area of activity (domestic or not) and the child's relationship to their employer (family member or not). However, the differences are not confined to simply facts, they are also observed in the social representations that children have about the distinct types of child labour. Finally, there are marked differences determined by age and gender, showing that inequality already affects the youngest members of society

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Smith, Erin. "A cross-cultural examination of the relations among Parkinson’s disease impairments, caregiver burden and mental health, and family dynamics in Mexico and the United States." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5814.

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Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a common progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to both physical and cognitive impairment over time. Eventually, these impairments may include the loss of autonomy, and the individual may require the assistance of an informal caregiver. Informal caregivers are critical in the care of individuals with PD and spend substantial time providing care, which may be associated with negative caregiver outcomes such as burden, mental health issues, as well as poor family dynamics. Although research in the United States and Europe has generally supported these relations, there is very limited research on PD caregiving in Latin America. Given the rapidly aging population of Latin America, research suggests that the prevalence of PD is likely to increase substantially. Although cultural values such as familism may encourage informal caregiving in Latin America, very little is known about either PD patient or caregiver experiences in the region and how they may differ from those in the United States and Europe. As such, the current study built upon Pearlin’s caregiving stress process model to examine how PD-related impairments, caregiver burden and mental health, and family dynamics may differ between the United States and Mexico and to examine connections among the following variables in a sample of PD caregivers from the United States and Mexico: (a) PD-related impairments (motor and non-motor symptoms) and caregiver burden, (b) caregiver burden and caregiver mental health, (c) PD-related impairments and mental health through caregiver burden, and (d) family dynamics which may moderate these relations. The current study consisted of caregivers of individuals with PD (total N = 253) from the United States (N = 105) and Mexico (N = 148). A series of t-tests and mediational models were conducted to determine the connections among PD-related impairments, caregiver burden and mental health, and family dynamics. Results suggested that caregivers from the United States site experienced higher levels of caregiver burden, although there were no significant differences in caregiver mental health. Further, caregiver burden fully mediated the relation between PD-related impairments and caregiver mental health at both study sites, although family dynamics did not moderate these mediational models as hypothesized. Despite the importance of cultural values such as familism in Latin America, family dynamics explained more variance in the model at the United States site than at the Mexico site. Exploratory analyses found that caregivers from the Mexico site more frequently reported suicidal and self-injurious thoughts but did not find a significant disparity in self-reported gender of the caregiver. Overall, the current study identified significant relations among PD-related impairments, caregiver burden and mental health, and family dynamics among caregivers of individuals with PD from the United States and Mexico. Findings from the current study highlight a number of important interventions for caregivers and families, including caregiver burden and mental health, as well as family dynamics.

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Kuykendoll, Megan K. Taylor. "Influences on Gender Role Attitudes among Mexican Adolescents." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303411539.

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Pochetti, Irène. "La cité des enfants des rues. Représentations, politiques et expériences des jeunesses urbaines marginales à Mexico et Tijuana." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0018.

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Cette thèse traite de la question des enfants des rues au Mexique, de son histoire, de sa construction en enjeu social et de l’expérience des jeunes aux marges des villes de Mexico et de Tijuana. Symbole de « l'enfance délaissée » dans les pays en voie de développement, cette catégorie sociale a été l'une des « priorités officielles » du premier gouvernement élu démocratiquement à la tête du pays en 2000. La thèse montre comment se configure le monde des enfants des rues en analysant les acteurs de l’intervention sociale auprès des jeunes mais également la façon dont se déploient les existences de ces jeunesses urbaines marginales dans un pays traversé par d’importantes reconfigurations politiques et sociétales. Par une approche sociohistorique de 1880 à nos jours, cette thèse se penche en premier lieu sur l'émergence de cette catégorie dans l’espace public et sa mise en problème qui s'articulent aux transformations sociopolitiques du pays. L’analyse de plusieurs supports iconographiques et documentaires révèle une tension constante entre les figures de la victime et du délinquant qui va de pair avec les angoisses que produit l’important développement urbain du Mexique. L'enquête ethnographique réalisée à Mexico et Tijuana entre 2003 et 2010 montre la pertinence de l'étude à l'échelle de la ville pour comprendre comment s'articulent les politiques, les représentations et les expériences sociales. L'analyse met au jour les spécificités de ces deux villes dans l'appréhension et le traitement du problème, mais également dans les modes d’individuation et les trajectoires biographiques de ces jeunes : si un « effet de frontière » est observé à Tijuana, la dynamique du monde des rues à Mexico se caractérise plutôt par un « effet de capitale ».Finalement, l'analyse par le genre met en évidence les tensions à l'œuvre entre la traduction du langage des droits dans les pratiques quotidiennes des organisations qui travaillent avec cette population et la permanence d'un imaginaire de la famille sexué et hiérarchisé, qui s'articule au récit national
This thesis deals with the history and construction of the social problem of Mexican street children and with the actual experience of marginalised youth in Mexico City and Tijuana. Symbol of the issue of “abandoned children” in developing countries, this social category has become one of the priorities of the first democratically elected Mexican government in 2000. The thesis examines how the world of “street children” is shaped by analysing the actors of social intervention and the effects of the country’s deep political and societal changes on these marginalised urban youth.Through a socio-historic approach from 1880 to nowadays, this thesis firstly studies the emergence of this category within the public space and its construction as a social problem, embedded in the socio-political transformations of the country. By exploring iconographic and documentary supports, the analysis identifies a constant tension between the figure of ‘victim’ and of ‘delinquent’, a tension which goes hand in hand with the anxiety produced by the tremendous urban development of Mexico.This ethnographic research, carried out in Mexico and Tijuana between 2003 and 2010, demonstrates the relevance of observing at city level in order to understand how the policies, representations and social experiences articulate. The analysis brings to light the specific features of these two cities in their perception and treatment of the problem as well as in the resulting individualisation modes and biographies of these young people. In Tijuana, a “border effect” is observed, whereas the streets dynamics in Mexico City are characterised by a “capital effect”. Finally, the gender analysis demonstrates the tensions between the appropriation of a law terminology in the everyday practices of the organisations working with this population and the traditional image of a sexualised and hierarchic family, embedded in the national narrative

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Rinaldy, Alicia. "Rester au village. Une génération à l’épreuve des changements économiques, politiques et familiaux au sud du Mexique (1943-2014)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA112/document.

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À partir d’une enquête ethnographique réalisée dans la région caféière du Soconusco, au sud du Chiapas, cette thèse contribue à la compréhension des mutations profondes des mondes ruraux mexicains et en particulier celles qui ont touché l’ejido. Elle documente les trajectoires économiques, politiques et familiales d’hommes et de femmes d’une génération charnière, née dans les années 1950, ayant vécu deux moments historiques distincts : une première socialisation structurée autour de la production agricole de la parcelle et de l’ejido, qui ont imposé un certain nombre d’obligations et contribué à construire des identités de genre spécifiques ; puis, à partir de la décennie 90, dans une nouvelle étape de son cycle familial, cette même génération fait face à des processus de désagrarisation et d’individualisation des marchés du travail et des interventions étatiques. Au sein du village, les familles rencontrées agrègent désormais des trajectoires laborieuses plus diverses, plus tertiaires et moins agraires, mais aussi précaires et incertaines, fortement différenciées selon les individus, ainsi que le support familial dont ils sont issus et dont ils disposent. Il s’agira de comprendre comment, dans ce nouveau contexte, certains parviennent à « rester au village » à travers l’analyse des territoires familiaux perpétuant l’ancrage local. Cette thèse donne à lire les expériences vécues de la sédentarité et leur mise en récit par une génération dont les premiers cadres de socialisation sont aujourd’hui profondément remis en question. Les hommes et les femmes rencontrés reconfigurent alors leurs affiliations symboliques, leurs appartenances familiales et villageoises
From an ethnographic investigation in a coffee region of Soconusco, in southern Chiapas, this thesis contributes to understand the profound changes of Mexican rural world and especially those that affected the ejido. It documents the economic, political and family trajectories of men and women of a transitional generation, born around 1950, who lived two distinct historical moments: a first socialization structured around the agrarian production and the ejido, which imposed obligations and built specific gender identities; then, from the 90s, in a new step of her family life course, this generation faces deagrarianization and individualization process of the labor market and state intervention. In the village, the families had then professional trajectories more diverse, more tertiary and less agrarian, but also precarious and strongly differentiated according to the individuals and their family support. It involves understanding how, in this new context, some manage to “stay in the village” with the analysis of the family territories perpetuating this local anchorage. This thesis gets to read the experiences of the sedentary people and the narratives of a generation whose first socialization frames are today profoundly questioned. Men and women interviewed rebuild their symbolic affiliations, their family and village links

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Gomez-Gomez, Carmen Elisa. "Familia y cine mexicano en el marco del neoliberalismo. Estudio critico de Por la libre, Perfume de violetas, Amar te duele y Temporada de patos." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253550808.

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Chardavoine, Julia. "Les dirigeants de grandes entreprises au Mexique au XXIe siècle. La résistance du capitalisme familial face à la mondialisation." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLED015.

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À partir de l'étude de quinze groupes économiques cotés en bourse et de leurs dirigeants, ce travail interroge l’évolution du capitalisme au Mexique au XXIe siècle. À l’heure du retrait de l’État de l’économie, de la démocratisation de la vie politique, de l’internationalisation des échanges et des mobilités, de la financiarisation et de l’imposition des règles de gouvernement d’entreprise, comment a évolué le champ du pouvoir économique au Mexique ? Qui sont les détenteurs du pouvoir économique aujourd’hui ? Les caractéristiques économiques et sociales des dirigeants d’entreprise se sont-elles transformées ou manifestent-elles une stabilité, qui interrogerait dès lors la capacité des élites traditionnelles à s’approprier de nouvelles ressources ? Observe-t-on un phénomène de manageurialisation de la gestion des entreprises, une internationalisation du monde des affaires, une valorisation croissante des savoirs financiers ou une circulation accrue des élites entre les secteurs public et privé ? Quelles stratégies financières, familiales et éducatives les grandes familles d’actionnaires majoritaires mettent-elles en place afin de conserver le contrôle du capital et de la gestion de leurs entreprises ? Autant de questions auxquelles cette thèse se propose de répondre à partir de l’étude prosopographique des 575 dirigeants de 15 entreprises cotées sans interruption entre 2000 et 2015 à l’indice boursier de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores. L'examen des trajectoires académiques et professionnelles des dirigeants d’entreprise, de leurs généalogies familiales et de leurs discours permet en effet de comprendre les ressources qu’ils mobilisent aujourd’hui afin d’accéder à des positions de pouvoir dans le champ économique. D’un point de vue méthodologique, ce travail s’appuie tant sur une série d’entretiens que sur la constitution d’une base de données traitée via une analyse des correspondances multiples (ACM), une étude de réseaux et des tableaux de variables croisées dynamiques
By studying the 15 economic groups listed in the index of the Mexican Stock Exchange as well as their business leaders, this work questions the evolution of capitalism in Mexico in the 21st century. Since the withdrawal of the State from the economy, the democratization of politics, the globalization of exchanges and mobilities, the financialization process and the rule of corporate governance, how has evolved the business community? Have the social and economic characteristics of business leaders changed ? Have the managers gained influence over the shareholders ? Have the business community become more international ? Is the financial expertise more valued than before? Do the elites circulate easily between public and private sectors ? Which financial, family and educative strategies have set up the major shareholder families in order to maintain control over capital and management of their businesses ? So many questions to which this thesis proposes to answer thanks to a biographic study of the 575 business leaders of 15 companies listed at the Mexican Stock Exchange from 2000 to 2015. The study of the academic and professional trajectories of business leaders, of their family genealogies and of their discourse allows us to understand the resources they are using today to access positions of power in the economic field. From a methodological point of view, this work relies on a series of interviews with top business leaders and the creation of a database processed through Multiple Correspondance Analysis (MCA), networks studies and dynamic cross tables

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Christenson, Owen D. "An Examination of Perceptions for Family Acculturation, Family Leisure Involvement, and Family Functioning among Mexican-Americans." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd462.pdf.

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González, López Greethel. "La religion et l’usage des méthodes contraceptives au Mexique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA029/document.

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Cette thèse porte sur le rapport entre la fécondité et la religion. Dans une approchesociodémographique, cet ouvrage propose une analyse sur les comportements et les attitudes descouples catholiques face à la planification familiale. Nous nous proposons d’expliquer comment cescouples concilient leur foi avec la nécessité de contrôler les naissances, puis la manière dont ilsjustifient leur dépendance ou désobéissance à la doctrine et, enfin, nous montrerons comment lesnouvelles attitudes coexistent avec les modèles traditionnels. Par ailleurs, étant donné que le Mexiqueest un pays qui appartient à l’ensemble d’un contexte culturel traditionnel dont les principalescaractéristiques garantissent la prévalence des rapports inégalitaires de sexe et de dominationmasculine, il nous a paru important d’inclure dans notre recherche une perspective de genre
This thesis focuses on the relationship between fertility and religion. In a demographic approach, thisthesis provides an analysis on the behavior and attitudes of Catholic couples face of family planning. Itproposes to explain how they reconcile their faith with the need for birth control and how they justifytheir dependence or disobedience to the doctrine. Finally, one of our main objectives is to recognizethe procedures by which new attitudes coexist with traditional models. Moreover, given that Mexico isa country that belongs to the set of a traditional cultural context in which its main characteristicsguarantee the prevalence of unequal relations of sex and male domination, it was considered importantto include in our research a gender perspective
Esta tesis se centra en la relación entre la fecundidad y la religión. Desde una perspectivasociodemográfica, este trabajo ofrece un análisis sobre el comportamiento y las actitudes de las parejascatólicas frente a la planificación familiar. Lo que se propone es explicar cómo estas personas logranconciliar su fe con la necesidad de controlar la natalidad y la manera con qué justifican su conformidado su desobediencia a la doctrina. Finalmente, uno de nuestros principales objetivos es el de reconocerlos procedimientos por los cuales las nuevas actitudes coexisten con los modelos tradicionales. Porotro lado, dado que México es un país que pertenece al conjunto de un contexto tradicional en el quesus principales características garantizan la desigualdad de sexos y la dominación masculina, seconsideró importante incluir en nuestra investigación, una perspectiva de género

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Rehm, Roberta S. "Mexican American family experiences with chronic childhood illness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7327.

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Andrade, Emily Y. "Illegal immigration : 6 stories from an American family." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365172.

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Illegal Immigration: Six Stories from an American Family is a collection of stories derived from and inspired by the author's personal life experiences, dreams, and family history, as a Mexican American woman. The stories also hold distinct archetypal patterns, images, storylines and symbolism due to the author's connection to the collective unconscious through meditation. The stories tell character driven stories of adversity, and the search for home, and identity by linking main characters to their family members in each story. The collection as a whole reveals generational patterns, histories and connections not only present in the matriarchal bloodline of the collection, but from one human to another. The stories beckon the reader into an alternate reality created by these archetypal patterns inherent in all humans, in an attempt to transcend genres and find a place within the psyche where anything is possible.
Illegal immigration -- Marco and Margarita -- La muerte de mi padre -- Together again -- Vivi and Ricardo -- The healer.
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Hawthorne, Barbara L. "Narratives of a third generation Mexican-American family in northern Colorado." Access citation, abstract and download form; downloadable file 34.76 Mb, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3131675.

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Harris, Elizabeth Caroline. "Mexican origin parenting in Sunnyside." Thesis, Washington State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3715223.

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Over the last several decades, Mexican origin immigrants have dispersed across the United States (Massey, Durand and Malone 2002). One community that has experienced particular growth in its Mexican origin population is Sunnyside, an agricultural city in the Yakima Valley. In this new destination community, Mexican origin families confront problems of gangs, violence, concentrated poverty and drug abuse, along with the challenges of surviving in a community that offers few pathways for mobility to Latinos.

In this study, I draw on 43 qualitative interviews and participant observer data to consider how Mexican origin parents, in two parent homes, go about the act of parenting in the context of Sunnyside. I query couples' parenting styles, with attention to how they develop aspirations for their children and to what models they use to inform their parenting. I look at how the structure of the community helps to perpetuate gendered parenting practices. Finally, I explore how these parenting approaches operate in the school system.

I argue that while much of the parenting that I observed deviates from that advocated by child development specialists (e.g. Baumrind 1968; 2012), the parenting was well designed to protect children from the particular forms of risk that were prominent in Sunnyside. The parenting was typically authoritarian and drew on models that families brought with them from Mexico. Other research on immigrant acculturation suggests this was probably an effective way to keep children safe by promoting selective acculturation (Portes and Rumbaut 2001; Zhou 1997). The parenting, however, was ill-designed to help the children to succeed educationally. Although parents wanted their children to get an education, they could offer little direct help to their children around educational tasks. Instead, they used discipline and engaged their children in physical labor to encourage the children to want to do well in school. This descriptive study helps to demonstrate how the characteristics of one particular new immigrant destination shape family life, parenting styles and children's life chances.

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Martinez, Dora Molina 1958. "Counseling expectations in relation to acculturation in Mexican American clients." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278415.

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The present study investigated counseling expectations of Mexican American clients in relation to acculturation by conducting personal interviews with a convenient sample of ten Mexican American clients. Utilizing a qualitative approach, the information gathered through personal interviews was consolidated as well as presented verbatim-style, and to some extent, it was interpreted as deemed appropriate. The results of the data revealed that there were no great contrasts of expectations across the acculturation levels for this set of participants. There were indications that what was generally stated for one particular acculturation level also applied to other levels as well. An implication of this study was that knowledge of counseling expectations as well as how they affect the counseling process and whether these expectations are being met will provide the mental health community with necessary and useful information to enhance the continued development of effective interventions for the Mexican American client.

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Martinez, Barbara Ann. "MEXICAN ORIGIN FAMILY PERSPECTIVES OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1134668161.

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