In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from
Central America to the United States gained mainstream
visibility-yet migration from Central America has been happening
for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet
distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and
second-generation Central Americans in the United States.While much
has been written about U.S. and Central American military,
economic, and political relations, this is the first book to
articulate the rich and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical
memories of Central American communities in the United States.
Contributors to this anthology-often writing from their own
experiences as members of this community-articulate U.S. Central
Americans' unique identities as they also explore the
contradictions found within this multivocal group. Working from
within Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Maya communities, contributors
to this critical study engage histories and transnational memories
of Central Americans in public and intimate spaces through
ethnographic, in-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews, as
well as literary and cultural analysis. The volume's generational,
spatial, urban, indigenous, women's, migrant, and public and
cultural memory foci contribute to the development of U.S. Central
American thought, theory, and methods. Woven throughout the
analysis, migrants' own oral histories offer witness to the
struggles of displacement, travel, navigation, and settlement of
new terrain. This timely work addresses demographic changes both at
universities and in cities throughout the United States. U.S.
Central Americans draws connections to fields of study such as
history, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies,
sociology, cultural studies, and literature, as well as diaspora
and border studies. The volume is also accessible in size, scope,
and language to educators and community and service workers wanting
to know about their U.S. Central American families, neighbors,
friends, students, employees, and clients. Contributors: Leisy
Abrego, Karina O. Alvarado, Maritza E. Cardenas, Alicia Ivonne
Estrada, Ester E. Hernandez, Floridalma Boj Lopez, Steven Osuna,
Yajaira Padilla, Ana Patricia Rodriguez.
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