Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States

Rivera-Salgado, Gaspar

doi:10.1525/jlca.2006.11.2.451

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“…We acknowledge this difficulty, but also consider it crucial to attend to the cultural, historical and sociopolitical factors that have informed Indigenous identities and experiences in particular national contexts. Ultimately, Mexican Indigenous im/migrants' adaptation experiences may or may not be comparable to those of other im/migrant groups with whom they share a national origin (Fox and Rivera-Salgado 2004;Casanova 2011;Salgado et al 2014). Across Mexican and Latina/o immigration literature and American Indian studies, the Mexican Indigenous im/migrant experience is invisible.…”

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Ecologies of adaptation for Mexican Indigenous im/migrant children and families in the United States: Implications for Latino studies

2016

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Mexican Indigenous im/migrants are a growing community made invisible at the margins of multiple racial, cultural and linguistic spaces in Mexico and the United States. This article addresses the need for a nuanced understanding of the adaptation of Mexican Indigenous im/migrant children and families that encourages Indigenous communities' cultural and linguistic knowledge to be recognized and valued, rather than silenced and stigmatized. We critically examine the existing literature on the adaptation of Mexican Indigenous im/migrants in the United States from the perspective of socioecological systems theory, incorporating insights from the theory but also pointing out its limitations for understanding Mexican Indigenous identities and experiences in diaspora. We propose integrating language-ecological approaches to provide a more complete picture of Indigenous ecologies of adaptation in the United States. We conclude that it is critical to expand research on Mexican Indigenous im/migrant adaptation within the field of Latino studies and identify possible directions for future research.

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Section: Situating the Experiences Of Mexican Indigenous Im/migrants mentioning

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Ecologies of adaptation for Mexican Indigenous im/migrant children and families in the United States: Implications for Latino studies

2016

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“…Some suggest that migrant resources could enable villages to persist and even flourish despite the depopulation of rural areas (Fox and Rivera-Salgado 2004;Cohen 2005), integrating migrants into community governance from afar, and getting an injection of resources and new ideas from their members abroad. This includes hope that migrants could provide flows of money, knowledge, and other resources to help shape and support environmental governance for migrant-sending towns and villages across Mexico (see Klooster 2013).…”

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Can indigenous transborder migrants affect environmental governance in their communities of origin? Evidence from Mexico

2015

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Despite high rates of out-migration, Mexican indigenous communities play a crucial role in biodiversity conservation. However, little is known about migrants' role in environmental management. This research brief explores the case of the Purépecha of San Pedro Ocumicho, Michoacán, and its transborder community in the Coachella Valley of California. We find that migrants maintain strong cultural ties to their community of origin. However, many are undocumented, are unable to access steady and well-paid employment, and would be unable to return to California were they to visit Mexico. Furthermore, government structures in Ocumicho are weak, providing few opportunities for migrants to contribute. These factors currently preclude migrants from influencing environmental decision making in their home community. Our findings point to the need for more comprehensive and longitudinal studies to better document and explain the variations in migrant support for environmental governance in their communities of origin.

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“…Many still do not self-identify as indigenous, although they may be identified as such by others. Yet, indigeneity has taken on important meaning as an organizing discourse for some Mexican immigrants after their migration to the United States (Fox and Rivera-Salgado 2004;Kearney 2000).…”

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“…'' 13 Similar to other scholars' findings, my research suggests that migration to the United Stated provides new freedom for indigenous Mexican organizers. As they move away from the hegemony of the Mexican state, rather than recreating an autonomous indigenous identity, which was oppressed in Mexico, they are creating new forms of political organization and new projects (Kearney 2000;Fox and Rivera-Salgado 2004). In the United States, many indigenous Mexicans form new solidarities with people outside their hometown and linguistic groups, often in opposition to racial and class discrimination.…”

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“…In the United States, many indigenous Mexicans form new solidarities with people outside their hometown and linguistic groups, often in opposition to racial and class discrimination. 14 Fox and Rivera-Salgado (2004) argue that such associations among groups have led to pan-indigenous collective action, often for the first time. 15 California-wide nonprofit organizations, such as CBDIO, mentioned above, and California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), actively teach members of the Oaxacan Cultural Project about indigenous terminology and the importance of pan-indigenous solidarity for accessing resources and maintaining rights.…”

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Pushing the boundaries of indigeneity and agricultural knowledge: Oaxacan immigrant gardening in California

Minkoff-Zern

2012

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This article explores a community garden in the Northern Central Coast of California, founded and cultivated by Triqui and Mixteco peoples native to Oaxaca, Mexico. The practices depicted in this case study contrast with common agroecological discourses, which assume native people's agricultural techniques are consistently static and place-based. Rather than choose cultivation techniques based on an abstract notion of indigenous tradition, participants utilize the most appropriate practices for their new environment. Garden participants combine agricultural practices developed in Oaxaca with those learned while working on California farms. Through the process of community gardening, immigrants find a new interpretation of their own shifting indigenous identity, based on culinary and agrarian practices in a new place. Additionally, they form solidarities between historic ethnic divides of Triqui and Mixteco, based on newfound commonalities in the garden. This case study provides an important example of the current articulation, construction, and deployment of indigeneity in the context of migration and agriculture, and its implications for immigrant opportunities and futures.

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Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States

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Ecologies of adaptation for Mexican Indigenous im/migrant children and families in the United States: Implications for Latino studies

Ecologies of adaptation for Mexican Indigenous im/migrant children and families in the United States: Implications for Latino studies

Can indigenous transborder migrants affect environmental governance in their communities of origin? Evidence from Mexico

Pushing the boundaries of indigeneity and agricultural knowledge: Oaxacan immigrant gardening in California

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