TY  - GEN
AU  - Bordi, Ivonne Vizcarra
TI  - Social Welfare in the 1990s in Mexico: the case of "marginal" families in the Mazahua region
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Social Welfare
KW  - PROGRESA
KW  - Social Control
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Mazahua
KW  - Women
N2  - In Mexico, the official discourse associates social welfare with development oppurtunities that so-called marginal families are expected to take advantage of. In the Mazahua region, these families commonly are headed by women. To fulfill the official discourse and related bureaucratic demands, the women must fit into organizations and take on new social responsibilities. In this paper, I will examine an initiative from the public sector (PROGRESA) and show that such programs change the household dynamics of families, generating feelings of resentment due to the inclusion/exclusion dynamics involved. Another of the paper's objectives is to access how the program's execution creates new mechanisms of social      control
ER  -