Second generation of Yucatecan migrants in Mexico: the "braceros of leisure" as intangible goods on a tourist paradise

Abstract

Cancun is the most important tourist pole in the Mexican Caribbean and whose unexpected evolution attracted thousands of immigrants, particularly a group of migrants of Yucatecan origin, to build and inhabit this city. Faced with the demands of tourism in the new generations of Yucatecan migrants, this work is intended to discuss the relationship that keeps tourism in the professional life of these young people who study and work in tourist areas. The information analyzed under a study of ethnographic cut corresponds to young university students, whose professional training deals with tourism and whose parents are originating in the state of Yucatán. From a reflection on flexible work and "docile bodies" among leisure workers, the incursion of these young people into the workforce is analyzed as a new work force for tourism, called "braceros of leisure".