Precarización laboral y corrupción: límites de los derechos y de la conservación en el Alto Golfo de California

Abstract

This article analyses the protection of marine species in the context of precarious labour, corruption and the growing transnational black markets in the Colorado delta and the Upper Gulf of California. I analyze these phenomena as constitutive elements of a globalized system of violences favoured by extractivist practices. All the former is put in perspective from the viewpoint of Cocopah fishers that get organized to try tostop the negative impacts of assimilation, dispossession and invisibilization produced in this context. Therefore I engage in trying to understand the role that national institutions play in the precarization of rural employment and in the empowerment of illicit structures of transnational black markets in this region. This case help to think on how laws and practices to evade them are interconnected phenomena that shouldbe studied together as part of the same processes of globalized States, just as Heyman and Smart have suggested (1999).