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And yet, one of the most significant drivers of continued emigration today, ironically, is the very culture of migration (described in the book) that has accelerated social change within many indigenous communities, setting in motion a complex series of economic and cultural shifts that have compelled a continuous movement of people and generations to the U.S. Reading this story in 2020 - at a time of massive growth in flows of irregular migrations around the world - can help us better understand the highly complex set of factors that propel long-term migrations and that shape transnational communities on both sides of the border.
In Search of Providence offers a layered, historically-grounded perspective that speaks to the local specificity behind the migration experience in order to point to the universal themes and contradictions of contemporary global displacements.
Pages | 412 |
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Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 Sep 2020 |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Subject/s | History of the Americas   Social & cultural anthropology   Migration, immigration & emigration   Ethnic studies   |
- Foreword - Francisco Goldman
- Preface to the New Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: One Foot Here, One Foot There
- 1 Entering the Field
- 2 Mayan Identities through History
- 3 The K'iche' of Xinxuc
- 4 La Costa del Norte
- Transnational Social Practices
- 5 A Dialogue on Indianness
- Maya or Mojado?
- 6 Memory and Guilt
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Three Transnational K'iche' Families
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index