Communities in motion. Migratory experiences and political participation in the Mezquital Valley

Abstract

The author’s work offers a critique of the individualistic model and reasserts the value of the collective. This stance represents a crucial contribution by explicitly distancing itself from Almond and Verba’s "civic voluntarism" and from analyses based solely on surveys, which often overlook the significance of the community context. In this regard, the research adopts a richer sociological and anthropological perspective—a fundamental strength of the study. The author reconceptualizes participation not merely as an individual act, but as a collective and structural phenomenon rooted in social networks and a "sense of the common." This approach enables an analysis of politics from below—grounded in everyday life—while emphasizing its nature as a dynamic process.