Migration and poverty phenomena is being analyzed, as well as strategies of inclusion.

Celaya, Gto., July 13, 2017.- Worried about her environment and with the objective to use science and research in favor of the vulnerable groups of our country, Dr. Miriam Reyes Tovar's research questions the existent methodologies to measure poverty and the relation it has with migration.

Dr. Reyes is a professor-researcher at the Department of Cultural and Political Studies of the Division of Social and Administrative Sciences of Campus Celaya-Salvatierra. Her study lines focus on migration and vulnerable groups.

The study she is currently working on carries the name of "Análisis de la pobreza y migración en la Sierra Gorda de Guanajuato: Estrategias de inclusión comunitaria en escala local y regional".

The professor explained that "with this project we pretend to know from where is people migrating from, why they do so and in each time, --if they come back—know if the place they left is the same or it has changed."

She focused on the Sierra Gorda of Guanajuato, because it is a region with population in rural areas, with a high index of poverty and margination that contrasts with the industrial and agricultural part of the region Laja-Bajío of Guanajuato, creating an interesting territorial disparity since it covers distinct activities. "we are interested in knowing if the cities with high margination index correspond or not to a high index of migration", she mentioned.

To fulfill with the analysis' expectations, the researcher in collaboration with professors of the University of Guadalajara and the University Michoacana, also, students making their social service; they have made arduous field work in the ethnographic level. They have toured the zone of the Sierra Gorda, analyzing the kind of soil it exists so they can know what kind of produce is latent to activate the economy.

On the matter, she mentioned the addition of a Master degree student in Business Studies who will work in processes of creation of a rural business. "Another finality is to incentive a small association that can be taken of the products of the zone.

We are working with a group of oregano producers, then we'll follow with another group of pinion producers. We want to help with advice, workshops, seminars and community work."

Such association, pretends to give business treatment to the rural products, to distribute them in different zones with the finality to produce the economic income of the Sierra Gorda of Guanajuato. Also, to have a control and replicate the model in other communities, a manual on how to create a rural business will be written and published.

Dr. Miriam Reyes Tovar believes science and research can be used to generate social transformations. She considers that the rural business can work as a factor that integrates the community, encourage the insertion of migrants to the work field and migrants from other areas can also collaborate.