Abstract

CANEDO-CAZAREZ, Sibely  and  MENDOZA-GUERRERO, Juan Manuel. Forced Displacement and Women’s Empowerment: The Case of Picachos Dam in the Southern Region of Sinaloa, Mexico. Ágora U.S.B. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.2, pp.370-386. ISSN 1657-8031.  https://doi.org/10.21500/16578031.3279.

Through resistance it is possible to give a new sense to social gender representations, creating alternative accounts to the victimization of displaced communities. The objective is to present a Women’s Empowerment case, as a response to the forced displacement experience. This is the history of San Marcos in the Municipality of Mazatlan, in the south of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico. One of the six flooded towns by Picachos Dam, whose building as of 2006, triggered a long conflict between commoners and the state government.

Keywords : Forced Displacement; Women’s Empowerment; Picachos Dam; Gender Representations..

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