Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Review of Semantics of the World: Selected Poems by Rómulo Bustos Aguirre

Review of Familia extensa by Rafael Reyes-Ruiz.

Post-marital residence in the groom’s household and inheritance of the house by the youngest son in Mexico are cultural practices of a type of social reproduction conceptualized as the Mesoamerican family system (MFS). The purpose of this article is to establish an approximate value of the volume of the MFS in Mexico based on data from the expanded questionnaire of the 2020 Population and Housing Census. Three empirical indicators of the MFS were introduced as variables in a statistical analysis model of principal components from which an index number of the presence of MFS was calculated at the municipal and state levels. Separately, the MFS indicator traits have a positive correlation with the percentage of indigenous language speakers, the degree of marginalization and the number of corn producers of the total population per municipality. It was found that 14.2% of the national population resides in municipalities with high or very high degrees of MFS. It is concluded that the presence of the MFS is distributed, roughly speaking, in the territory coinciding with that conventionally defined as the Mesoamerican cultural area.

A growing tenancy process has been observed in Argentina in the recent years which is also combined with greater requirements for tenants. In tourist cities, such as Bariloche, speculation and displacement of permanent rental housing towards tourist housing exacerbate the vulnerability of inhabitants. Although federal, state, and local governments have scope to confront these issues, local governments could assume a more active role, even with budgetary rigidity. Therefore, we review other cities' experiences and set feasible interventions in the rental market to address this housing problem, using Bariloche as a case study. The proposals include the transformation of the current Land and Housing Municipal Institute into a public urban development agency; rental market's regulations through limitations of commercial authorizations; capturing urban capital gains through current district laws to obtain land, and articulation of public and private actors to build real estate and establish fair uses and conditions.

The objective was to investigate the association between the immobility of the rural population and access to water in the Caatinga biome in Northeast Brazil. Using a spatial approach, we sought to identify whether the fact that some people have never migrated from rural areas could be associated with access to water made possible by cisterns, an essential resource for rural families to cope with drought. Focusing on the rural population, using methods of spatial analysis of areas based on data from the 2010 Demographic Census, it was possible to identify areas where access to cisterns has a greater influence on immobility.

The article describes the evolution of the multigenerational co-residence in Chile, with emphasis on the variables associated with it among people aged 60 or over, using the complete databases of the National Population Censuses of 1982, 1992, 2002, 2012 and 2017. Multigenerational co-residence is defined as an older people living with a son or daughter aged 25 or older and/or with a grandchild with or without the intermediate generation. While three-generation arrangements were halved in the period studied, the number of older people co-residing only with adult children aged 25 or over (without grandchildren) increased, so the decline in the proportion of Chilean older people living in multigenerational arrangements has not been so abrupt. It can be concluded that multigenerational co-residence occurs mainly due to adult children who stay longer in their parents’ homes and for elderly widows who go to live to a child’s home.