Guatemala-U.S. migration : transforming regions / by Susanne Jonas and Nestor Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonas, Susanne, 1941- author.

Rodriguez, Néstor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guatemalans--United States--Social conditions.

Guatemalans.

Guatemalan Americans--Social conditions.

Guatemalan Americans.

Guatemala--Emigration and immigration.

Guatemala.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions is a pioneering, comprehensive, and multifaceted study of Guatemalan migration to the United States from the late 1970s to the present. It analyzes this migration in a regional context including Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. This book illuminates the perilous passage through Mexico for Guatemalan migrants, as well as their settlement in various U.S. venues. Moreover, it builds on existing theoretical frameworks and breaks new ground by analyzing the construction and transformations of this migration region and transregional dimensions of migration. Seamlessly blending multiple sociological perspectives, this book addresses the experiences of both Maya and ladino Guatemalan migrants, incorporating gendered as well as ethnic and class dimensions of migration. It spans the most violent years of the civil war and the postwar years in Guatemala, hence including both refugees and labor migrants. The demographic chapter delineates five phases of Guatemalan migration to the United States since the late 1970s, with immigrants experiencing both inclusion and exclusion very dramatically during the most recent phase, in the early twenty-first century. This book also features an innovative study of Guatemalan migrant rights organizing in the United States and transregionally in Guatemala/Central America and Mexico. The two contrasting in-depth case studies of Guatemalan communities in Houston and San Francisco elaborate in vibrant detail the everyday experiences and evolving stories of the immigrants’ lives.

Contents:

Theoretical perspectives : Guatemalan migration and regionalization

Phases of migration

Organizing for migrant rights

Settlement and transformations in Houston

Contradictions of the San Francisco area

Transregional passage.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-76315-8

OCLC:

895257728