Más allá de la frontera. Movilidad y reconfiguraciones familiares entre los chuj de México y Guatemala

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ID21474503
AuthorsMaría Teresa Rodríguez López (0000-0001-6522-0408, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), Álvaro Eduardo Caballeros Herrera (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala)
Year2020
Volume32
Publication date2020-05-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontera Norte (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0187-7372 • E-ISSN: 2594-0260
PublisherEl Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33679/rfn.v1i1.1972
OpenAlexW3084319184
LanguageES
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In 1981, thousands of indigenous Guatemalans fled the civil war in their country, taking refuge in the first instance in Chiapas, Mexico, near the border line. In 1996 the Peace Agreements were reached, and part of the refugee population returned to Guatemala, while another fraction remained in Mexico, in localities of the states of Chiapas, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. This triple process –refuge, return, and/or definitive settlement in Mexico– resulted in new dynamics of movement and cross-border mobility, as well as in the reconfiguration of family and parental groups based on differentiated citizenship status. In this article, we provide analytical elements associated with these dynamics, based on the ethnographic observation carried out in the returnee village of Yalambojoch, in the department of Huehuetenango, municipality of Nentón, Guatemala, and in Santa Rosa el Oriente, a town in Chiapas that received refugees

Archaeology · Art · Citizenship · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Population · Refugee · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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