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In Search of Providence - Transnational Mayan Identities (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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In Search of Providence - Transnational Mayan Identities (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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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 U.S., today part of the 'border crisis'
that prompted 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,'
and in terms of the contemporary push factors such as climate
change and growing inequality that have forced people from their
communities. And yet, one of the most significant drivers of
continued emigration today, ironically, is the very culture of
migration (described in the book) that has accelerated social
change within many indigenous communities, setting in motion a
complex series of economic and cultural shifts that have compelled
a continuous movement of people and generations to the U.S. Reading
this story in 2020 - at a time of massive growth in flows of
irregular migrations around the world - can help us better
understand the highly complex set of factors that propel long-term
migrations and that shape transnational communities on both sides
of the border. In Search of Providence offers a layered,
historically-grounded perspective that speaks to the local
specificity behind the migration experience in order to point to
the universal themes and contradictions of contemporary global
displacements.
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