Thus, migrant households with ever dwindling resources are faced with new circumstances that, promoted by the new pattern of migration, have given rise to divergent interests, differing purposes, and diverse mechanisms in the way men and women make personal decisions regarding their individual paths. Often, these decisions involve leaving their communities even when it goes against the will and the interests of their domestic units. A long tradition in anthropological and sociological studies regarding domestic units is based on the assumption that migration, especially that of young people, had become part of the reproductive strategies of rural and indigenous households (Arizpe 1980, Sana & Massey 2005).