Nostalgia por la tierra, nostalgia por el dolar: Guatemalan transnational lives and ideology of return migration

This paper addresses the ideology of return among contemporary Guatemalan migrants living and working in the southwestern desert city of Phoenix in Arizona. In Phoenix’s metropolitan area, Guatemalans (both Ladino and Maya ethnic groups) add to the city’s cultural mosaic, and at the same time, are v...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Moran-Taylor, Michelle J.
Fformat: Online
Iaith:eng
Cyhoeddwyd: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2002
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/279
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Crynodeb:This paper addresses the ideology of return among contemporary Guatemalan migrants living and working in the southwestern desert city of Phoenix in Arizona. In Phoenix’s metropolitan area, Guatemalans (both Ladino and Maya ethnic groups) add to the city’s cultural mosaic, and at the same time, are vital agents for change in Guatemalan society. Little is known about the processes and patterns behind Guatemalan migration despite the fact that over 10 percent of Guatemala’s population currently resides in the United States. Most Guatemalans in Phoenix, regardless of their length of residence in the United States, express longings for return to their homeland. In part, this strong notion of return prevails because the Guatemalan community in the Phoenix metropolitan area is not cohesive.