In a time when globalization has escalated the migration of groups of people there is still little known of the families and communities that stay behind. Based on over five years of ethnographic research with campesinas (rural Mexican women) in a highly migratory part of Central Mexico, this article examines the manner in which campesinas who stay behind as their husbands migrate are implicated in global processes. As a result of the movement of spouses to and from the United States new ideas, capital, bodies, and information are introduced that alter the roles and perspectives of women who stay behind. From a gendered glocal framework that links global and local processes and considers power relations stretched across various spaces and amongst gender relations, the author examines how women learn to accommodate, contest, and transcend their transmigrant state and changing ideologies. Women's integration in a non-governmental organization, reliance on family networks and cultural traditions, among others, help maintain their integrity and wholeness as single mothers, group leaders, and community participants.En una época en la que la globalización ha incrementado la migración de grupos de personas, es poco lo que se sabe de las familias y comunidades que se quedan atrás. En base a más de 5 años de investigación etnográfica con campesinas (mujeres rurales mexicanas) en un área de alta migración del centro de México, este artículo analiza la manera en que las campesinas que se quedan atrás mientras sus esposos migran, ha implicado en los procesos globales. Como resultado de la migración de los maridos hacia y desde los Estados Unidos, se introducen nuevas ideas, capital, personas e información, los cuales alteran la función y perspectiva de las mujeres que se quedan atrás. Desde un marco global de género que enlaza los procesos locales y globales y que considera las relaciones de poder que se extienden a través de varios espacios y entre las relaciones de género, el autor analiza la manera como las
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