Guatemala-U.S. Migration

Jonas, Susanne; Rodríguez, Néstor

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“…However, his linguistic capital (Yosso, 2005) is discarded by the State upon entering the Guatemalan school system where instruction is provided in Spanish. This linguistic discrimination is further exacerbated upon migration to the United States (Jonas & Rodríguez, 2014) where Santiago enters a context in which the language of instruction is English (Bartolomé, 2014). Complicating the provision of linguistic supports, the best language to receive academic support is his Indigenous language.…”

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Somos pero no somos iguales/We Are But We Are Not the Same: Unpacking Latinx Indigeneity and the Implications for Urban Schools

López

Irizarry

2019

Urban Education

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Applying several critical race theories as analytical frameworks, the authors present and analyze counterstories of Indigenous Latinx students attending an urban high school in a “new Latinx diaspora” community, underscoring points of convergence as well as the ways their experiences were distinct from those of their Latinx peers. The findings suggest that urban school improvement efforts often ignore Latinx Indigeneity and further alienate students. As such, more complex and nuanced understandings of Latinx communities are required to improve the quality of education offered to them. The article concludes by exploring the implications of this work for educators and researchers.

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Somos pero no somos iguales/We Are But We Are Not the Same: Unpacking Latinx Indigeneity and the Implications for Urban Schools

López

Irizarry

2019

Urban Education

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“…While the boundary between Mexico and Guatemala remained indeterminate and porous from the political independence of both countries to the late-twentieth century, the region was permanently transformed during the Cold War as thousands of Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Salvadorans crossed into Mexico, fleeing civil war and political upheaval (Coutin 2007;García 2006;Jonas & Rodríguez 2014). From 1954 to 1996, death squads, revolutions, and military coups, often instigated by the U.S., ravaged Central America (Grandin 2004(Grandin , 2006Rabe 2012).…”

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Subordinating Space: Immigration Enforcement, Hierarchy, and the Politics of Scale in Mexico and Central America

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Walker

2022

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In recent years, security and immigration enforcement has expanded rapidly throughout Mexico. From checkpoints and patrols to a vast system of detention and deportation, Mexican officials have implemented far-reaching measures to curtail international migration from Central America. Many of these efforts have been concentrated along the Mexico–Guatemala border and deep within southern Mexico, culminating in Programa Frontera Sur, a militarized approach to border security implemented in 2014. In this article, we explore how security and immigration enforcement in Mexico rely on spatial hierarchies that divide north and south. The practice of security and immigration enforcement has received significant attention across many disciplines. The notion of spatial hierarchies and the ways in which scalar differentiation impinges upon well-being has been less covered. As we show, these hierarchies partition North and Central America according to colonial modes, subordinating the latter as inferior while working across global, national, and local scales. Crucially, the linkages between securitization and the spatialization of hierarchies provide insights into nation-building and regional identity, where Mexico and the United States are increasingly designated as separate from South and Central America.

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“…The existing literature on Guatemalan migrants’ return and reintegration experiences largely fails to consider the significance of Indigenous identity during these migratory processes. In fact, few studies of Guatemala–US migration meaningfully differentiate between Guatemalan migrants’ ethnic groups at all (Argueta et al, 2015; Jonas and Rodríguez, 2015). Recent events have emphasized the potentially serious consequences of this erasure of ethno-cultural differences in the migration experience, claiming that Indigenous youth migrants are at greater risk for deportation, family separation, and death in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody as a result of cultural differences that are systematically ignored (Gieselman, 2018; Truax, 2018).…”

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“…During the internal conflict, thousands of Guatemalans, many of them Indigenous, sought safety in Mexico and the United States. These northward emigration flows from Guatemala have steadily climbed since the 1970s (Jonas and Rodríguez, 2015).…”

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“…Compounding the national context that pushes many Guatemalans to migrate, Indigenous Guatemalans ‘are emigrating from historical settings of their racial subjugation and subordination, in which they were relegated to the lower stratum of Guatemala’ (Jonas and Rodríguez, 2015: 18). This is reflected in country statistics that reveal a starkly unequal distribution of resources and social ills, with the Indigenous population being severely disadvantaged when compared to Ladinos of European descent.…”

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Returning to their roots: Examining the reintegration experiences of returned Indigenous migrant youth in Guatemala

Scarnato

2020

International Social Work

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This article examines the reintegration experiences of Indigenous migrant youth returned to Guatemala from the United States and Mexico, thereby filling a gap in extant literature. This qualitative study employed a critical ethnographic approach with reflexive thematic analysis of fieldwork and interviews with social service providers working with this population through the lens of Critical Latinx Indigeneities. Four major themes emerged: identity negotiation (sub-themes being Indigenous identities and returned migrant identities), trauma and its consequences, institutional and internalized oppression, and decolonization. Implications for social work emphasize the importance of Indigenous and decolonizing approaches to social work.

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Guatemala-U.S. Migration

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Somos pero no somos iguales/We Are But We Are Not the Same: Unpacking Latinx Indigeneity and the Implications for Urban Schools

Somos pero no somos iguales/We Are But We Are Not the Same: Unpacking Latinx Indigeneity and the Implications for Urban Schools

Subordinating Space: Immigration Enforcement, Hierarchy, and the Politics of Scale in Mexico and Central America

Returning to their roots: Examining the reintegration experiences of returned Indigenous migrant youth in Guatemala

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