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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 37-52Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X08315758
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tourism employment; female labor force; economic crisis; internal migration; dependency
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In developing its tourist industry, the Mexican government had three main goals: earning foreign exchange, creating employment, and diverting internal migration toward tourism development poles. Statistics on employment and in-migration to Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, and Los Cabos show that it has been relatively successful in achieving these goals. However, Mexico has increased its dependency on loans, foreign capital, and foreign patronage and has imposed costs on the working class employed in low-waged and precarious tourist jobs, including de facto social and economic apartheid.
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