"Tuvimos que estar allá pa'hacer algo aquí": Formas de vida transnacional y trabajo femenino, realidades en Michoacán.

This paper focuses on specific aspects of the relationships and dynamics used by the habitants of two Michoacan localities to maintain a way of life that engages in practices that links several places within a transnational space dimension. There, work activities, culture, marital and familial relations are produced, transported and transformed by those involved immigratory flows. They show how families, particularly wives, respond and reorganize to survive the migration of one or more of their members, or their own migration. They construct ways of life in which long distance married life, female work and a greater role in decision-making become commonplace infamily reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]