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This paper proposes an analytical model to understand, analyze and compare the state migration policies in the presence of persistent and increasingly migratory flows nowadays. Thus, migration policies are analyzed from the most critical concepts and with the historical reconstruction of the origin and development of migratory instruments and regulations. Finally, it proposes a model for analyzing the State's Governmental Logic with the help of Neo-institutionalist perspective and the Public Policies Approach; the Foucaultian-inspired debate on "technologies of power" for population control, and sociological developments on individuals' migration practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In neoliberalism, rural Mexican women have diversified their work. The policies to promote productive and reproductive labor are associated with an instrumental perspective of development. The paper discusses critiques to development, identify alternatives in rural women organization and suggest clues to strengthen it, drawing on public policies. Long-term rural women's productive experiences are analyzed, and the local indigenous cooperative practices is deepened. The strategies highlight gender as process. Agency, shared-responsibility and autonomy are crucial in cooperatives' continuity, although time-poverty for women increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]