Indigenous Mexican Migrants In The United States

Author : Jonathan Fox,Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Publisher : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173016321857

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Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States by Jonathan Fox,Gaspar Rivera-Salgado Pdf

The multiple pasts and futures of the Mexican nation can be seen in the faces of the tens of thousands of indigenous people who each year set out on their voyages to the north, as well as the many others who decide to settle in countless communities within the United States. To study indigenous Mexican migrants in the United States today requires a binational lens, taking into account basic changes in the way Mexican society is understood as the twenty-first century begins. This collection explores these migration processes and their social, cultural, and civic impacts in the United States and in Mexico. The studies come from diverse perspectives, but they share a concern with how sustained migration and the emergence of organizations of indigenous migrants influence social and community identity, both in the United States and in Mexico. These studies also focus on how the creation and re-creation of collective ethnic identities among indigenous migrants influences their economic, social, and political relationships in the United States. of California, Santa Cruz

Author : Carlos Yescas Angeles Trujano
Publisher : Hammersmith Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9789290684411

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Indigenous Routes by Carlos Yescas Angeles Trujano Pdf

As migration has not commonly been considered as part of the indigenous experience, the prevalent view of indigenous communities tends to portray them as static groups, deeply rooted in their territories and customs. Increasingly, however, indigenous peoples are leaving their long-held territories as part of the phenomenon of global migration beyond the customary seasonal and cultural movements of particular groups. Diverse examples of indigenous peoples' migration, its distinctive features and commonalities are highlighted throughout this report, and show that more research and data on this topic are necessary to better inform policies on migration and other phenomena that have an impact on indigenous people' lives.

Author : Lynn Stephen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822389967

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Transborder Lives by Lynn Stephen Pdf

Lynn Stephen’s innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca—the Mixtec community of San Agustín Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle—who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration has had on local systems of government in both Mexico and the United States as well as the abilities of states to police and affect transborder communities. Stephen weaves the personal histories and narratives of indigenous transborder migrants together with explorations of the larger structures that affect their lives. Taking into account U.S. immigration policies and the demands of both commercial agriculture and the service sectors, she chronicles how migrants experience and remember low-wage work in agriculture, landscaping, and childcare and how gender relations in Oaxaca and the United States are reconfigured by migration. She looks at the ways that racial and ethnic hierarchies inherited from the colonial era—hierarchies that debase Mexico’s indigenous groups—are reproduced within heterogeneous Mexican populations in the United States. Stephen provides case studies of four grass-roots organizations in which Mixtec migrants are involved, and she considers specific uses of digital technology by transborder communities. Ultimately Stephen demonstrates that transborder migrants are reshaping notions of territory and politics by developing creative models of governance, education, and economic development as well as ways of maintaining their cultures and languages across geographic distances.

Author : Sascha Krannich
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643909206

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The Reconquest of Paradise? by Sascha Krannich Pdf

The book analyzes the phenomenon of how indigenous migrants, who escaped social discrimination and economic exclusion in Mexico, are building a well institutionalized, transnational migrant community in the United States. During this process of self-empowerment, indigenous migrant leaders use transnational networks on different levels to negotiate indigenous membership, identity, and opportunities of political participation. Over the last few decades, they were able to improve living conditions of members in the migrant community as well as indigenous home communities in Mexico. Dissertation. (Series: Studies in Migration and Minorities / Studien zu Migration und Minderheiten, Vol. 32) [Subject: Migrant Studies, Politics, Sociology]

Author : Wayne A. Cornelius
Publisher : Ctr Comparative Immigration Studies University of California; Lynn
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080853784

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Migration from the Mexican Mixteca by Wayne A. Cornelius Pdf

"This volume provides a vivid portrait of a transnational migrant community anchored in both the remote Mixteca region of Oaxaca and the San Diego metropolitan area. Drawing on surveys and interviews with migrants and potential migrants conducted by a binational research team in 2007-2008, the contributors show how the Oaxaca-based and the California-based natives of the town of San Miguel Tlacotepec have built parallel communities separated by an increasingly fortified international border. Their findings shed important new light on a range of vital issues in US immigration policy, including the efficacy and impact of border enforcement, how undocumented status affects health and education outcomes, and how modern telecommunications are shaping transborder migrant networks." -- Book cover.

Author : John Tutino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292737181

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Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States by John Tutino Pdf

Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history, this volume elucidates how economic, social, and cultural legacies grounded in colonial New Spain shaped both Mexico and the United States, as well as how Mexican Americans have constructively participated in North American ways of production, politics, social relations, and cultural understandings. Combining historical, sociological, and cultural perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore the following topics: the Hispanic foundations of North American capitalism; indigenous peoples’ actions and adaptations to living between Mexico and the United States; U.S. literary constructions of a Mexican “other” during the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War; the Mexican cotton trade, which helped sustain the Confederacy during the Civil War; the transformation of the Arizona borderlands from a multiethnic Mexican frontier into an industrializing place of “whites” and “Mexicans”; the early-twentieth-century roles of indigenous Mexicans in organizing to demand rights for all workers; the rise of Mexican Americans to claim middle-class lives during and after World War II; and the persistence of a Mexican tradition of racial/ethnic mixing—mestizaje—as an alternative to the racial polarities so long at the center of American life.

Author : M. Laura Velasco Ortiz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816523274

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Mixtec Transnational Identity by M. Laura Velasco Ortiz Pdf

"Laura Velasco Ortiz investigates groups located on both sides of the border that have maintained strong links with towns and villages in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca in order to understand how this transformation came about. Through a combination of survey, ethnography, and biography, she examines the formation of ethnic identity under the conditions of international migration, giving special attention to the emergence of organizations and their leaders as collective and individual ethnic agents of change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alexandra Délano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139499651

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Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States by Alexandra Délano Pdf

In the past two decades, changes in the Mexican government's policies toward the 30 million Mexican migrants living in the US highlight the importance of the Mexican diaspora in both countries given its size, its economic power and its growing political participation across borders. This work examines how the Mexican government's assessment of the possibilities and consequences of implementing certain emigration policies from 1848 to 2010 has been tied to changes in the bilateral relationship, which remains a key factor in Mexico's current development of strategies and policies in relation to migrants in the United States. Understanding this dynamic gives an insight into the stated and unstated objectives of Mexico's recent activism in defending migrants' rights and engaging the diaspora, the continuing linkage between Mexican migration policies and shifts in the US-Mexico relationship, and the limits and possibilities for expanding shared mechanisms for the management of migration within the NAFTA framework.

Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000079569

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Mexican Immigration to the United States by Manuel Gamio Pdf

Author : Carole Nagengast,Rodolfo Stavenhagen,Michael Kearney
Publisher : University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009814388

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Human Rights and Indigenous Workers by Carole Nagengast,Rodolfo Stavenhagen,Michael Kearney Pdf

Author : Paloma E. Villegas
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774863407

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North of El Norte by Paloma E. Villegas Pdf

North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken b by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Paloma Villegas examines not only the implications of changing Canadian immigration policy and practice but also the barriers that migrants without permanent resident status encounter once in Canada, specifically in the labour market, in their creative pursuits, and in accessing health care. Her comprehensive research sheds light on how individuals and institutions work to illegalize migrants and on the migrants' active resistance to those efforts.

Author : Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520291638

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The Other California by Verónica Castillo-Muñoz Pdf

Introduction: the Mexican borderlands -- Building the Mexican borderlands -- The making of Baja California's multicultural society -- Revolution, labor unions, and early movements for land reform in Baja California 1910-1930 -- "Land and liberty": conflict, land reform, and repatriation in the Mexicali Valley, 1930-1940 -- Mexicali's exceptionalism -- Conclusion: the "all Mexican" train

Author : Christina L. Sisk
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816530656

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Mexico, Nation in Transit by Christina L. Sisk Pdf

"This book argues for a deterritorialized notion of Mexican national, regional, and local identities by analyzing the representations of migration within Mexican and Mexican American literature, film, and music from the last twenty years"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Roberto Cintli Rodríguez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530618

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Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez Pdf

Weaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.

Author : Jessica Retis,Roza Tsagarousianou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119236702

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The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture by Jessica Retis,Roza Tsagarousianou Pdf

A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field. Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity—presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studies This innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world. The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption. Divided into seven sections, this wide-ranging volume covers topics such as methodological challenges and innovations in diasporic research, the construction of diasporic identity, the politics of diasporic integration, the intersection of gender and generation with the diasporic condition, new technologies in media, and many others. A much-needed resource for anyone with interest diasporic studies, this book: Presents new and original theory, research, and essays Employs unique methodological and conceptual debates Offers contributions from a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers Explores new and emerging trends in the study of diasporas and media Applies a wide-ranging, international perspective to the subject Due to its international perspective, interdisciplinary approach, and wide range of authors from around the world, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.