Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States

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ID15021967
AuthorsGaspar Rivera‐salgado (University of California San Diego), Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Year2006
Volume11
Issue2
Pages451-453
Publication date2006-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofIndigenous Mexican migrants in the United States, Jonathan Fox, 2004
VenueJournal of Latin American Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1085-7052 • E-ISSN: 1548-7180
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/jlat.2006.11.2.451
OpenAlexW2101842083
LanguageEN
Citations received3

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

Ethnic group · Ethnology · Indigenous · Mexican americans · Political science · Sociology · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law

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