| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 263 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
The Maya diaspora: introduction / James Loucky and Marilyn M. Moors -- Survivors on the move: Maya migration in time and space / Christopher H. Lutz and W. George Lovell -- Flight, exile, repatriation, and return: Guatemalan refugee scenarios, 1981-1998 / Catherine L. Nolin Hanlon and W. George Lovell -- Space and identity in testimonies of displacement: Maya migration to Guatemala City in the 1980s / Antonella Fabri -- Organizing in exile: the reconstruction of community in the Guatemalan refugee camps of Southern Mexico / Deborah L. Billings -- Challenges of return and reintegration / Clark Taylor -- A Maya voice: the Maya of Mexico City / Domingo Hernández Ixcoy -- Becoming Belizean: Maya identity and the politics of nation / Michael C. Stone -- La huerta: transportation hub in the Arizona desert / Nancy J. Wellmeier -- Indiantown, Florida: the Maya diaspora and applied anthropology / Allan F. Burns -- A Maya voice: the refugees in Indianatown, Florida / Jerónimo Camposeco -- The Maya of Morganton: exploring worker identity within the global marketplace / Leon Fink and Alvis Dunn -- Maya urban villagers in Houston: the formation of a migrant community from San Cristóbal Totonicapán / Nestor P. Rodríguez and Jacqueline Maria Hagan -- A Mayan voice: living in Vancouver / Zoila Ramirez -- Maya in a modern metropolis: establishing new lives and livelihoods in Los Angeles / James Loucky -- Conclusion: the Maya diaspora experience / Marilyn M. Moors -- Epilogue: elilal/exilio / Víctor D. Montejo |
| Summary |
How Maya refugees found new lives in strange lands |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Relocation -- United States
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Mayas -- Relocation -- North America
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Mayas -- Guatemala -- Migrations
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HISTORY -- Native American.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Mayas -- Migrations
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Guatemala
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North America
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loucky, James.
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Moors, Marilyn M., 1934-
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| ISBN |
9781439901229 |
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1439901228 |
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1282047248 |
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9781282047242 |
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