9780826501257 - In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities von Foxen, Patricia (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Argues that the recent surge in Mayan border crossings must be contextualized within both the longer history of violence, marginality, and exclusion that has long led Guatemala s indigenous populations to be survivors on the move , and in terms of the cont.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the mid-1990s, Patricia Foxen traveled back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, to understand the migration paths of K'iche' Mayan Indians who had fled the Guatemalan civil war to work in the factories and fisheries of New England. More than two decades later, many Mayans are still migrating to the US, today part of the 'border crisis' that prompted the Trump administration's ruthless immigration and asylum policy backlash. As Foxen argues, the recent surge in Mayan border crossings must be contextualized within both the longer history of violence, marginality, and exclusion that has long led Guatemala's Indigenous populations to be 'survivors on the move,' as well as contemporary push factors such as climate change and growing inequality that have forced people from their communities.