Un estudio cuantitativo de la migración en la frontera sur de México-Guatemala

Migration movements in the south border of México with Guatemala, has motivated serious social, economic and politic un-stability in both countries. During the last decades of the XX-th century, the sites of the south zone have become in zones with high violence indexes, delinquency and migration, instead of being only riches tropical forests. A sample was selected using the connections among the migrants present in the studied zone. We used Correspondence Analysis for establishing graphically , the dependence and interdependence relations among the categorical variables using a contingency table, enhancing the identification of the relation of the structure, similarity and dissimilarity, proximity or farthermost among objects/individuals and attributes.. This technique allowed developing an analysis between origin-destiny of the migrants, with respect to the indexes considered in this study.