%0 Journal Article
%T Precariedad de la sociedad, segmentaci¨®n de la pol¨ªtica social: El caso de M¨¦xico
%A Philippe Dautrey
%J European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
%D 2013
%I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
%X :   Societal Insecurity and Segmentation of Social Policy: The Case of Mexico Following the adoption of a neo-liberal economic policy, Mexico in the past two decades has seen a new dilemma of increasing labour insecurity emerge in addition to the old one of endemic poverty caused by underdevelopment and heightened inequality. Mexico's social policy has been reduced to safeguarding the protection of workers in the formal sector, as well as providing assistance to those most vulnerable and a slight reduction in levels of destitution. But with the partial privatization of the retirement system and the consolidation of the programmes providing assistance, this social policy has largely become segmented. At the same time, the provision of welfare has increasingly been delegated to market mechanisms that substitute development and the priorities of the elite, further exacerbating fragmentation. Mexico's social policy is becoming entrenched in a framework of corporatist relations. In short, the consolidation of benefits and an authentic social citizenship capable of counterbalancing the increasing societal insecurity and reinforcing its fragile cohesion has not been secured. Resumen: En el M¨¦xico de las dos ¨²ltimas d¨¦cadas, al viejo dilema de la pobreza end¨¦mica generada por el subdesarrollo y la elevada desigualdad, se agrega un nuevo, a saber, el aumento de la precariedad laboral a ra¨ªz de la adopci¨®n de una pol¨ªtica econ¨®mica de corte neoliberal. La pol¨ªtica social se ha limitado al resguardo de la protecci¨®n de los trabajadores del sector formal, as¨ª como a la asistencia a los m¨¢s desprotegidos y a la mera reducci¨®n de los niveles de indigencia. Pero al privatizarse parcialmente los sistemas de pensiones y al focalizarse los programas de asistencia, dicha pol¨ªtica se ha segmentado en mayor grado. Asimismo, la producci¨®n de bienestar se articul¨® cada vez m¨¢s al mercado, el cual sustituy¨® al desarrollo en las prioridades de las ¨¦lites, acentu¨¢ndose la fragmentaci¨®n. La pol¨ªtica social ha continuado arraigada en un esquema de relaciones corporativistas. En suma, no se ha logrado la unificaci¨®n de los derechos y una aut¨¦ntica ciudadan¨ªa social capaz de contrarrestar la creciente precariedad de la sociedad y reforzar su fr¨¢gil cohesi¨®n.
%K Mexico
%K poverty
%K social policy
%K welfare
%K precariedad
%K pol¨ªtica social
%K bienestar
%U http://www.erlacs.org/index.php/erlacs/article/view/8391