De la frontera política a las fronteras étnicas: refugiados guatemaltecos en México

This work tries to apply the various meanings of the term frontera (border) (understood as a boundary, as colonizations front line, and as a symbolic and an ethnic divide) to the life experiences of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico, which unfolds in two phases: asylum and integration. An analysis of...

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Auteur principal: Edith F. Kauffer Michel
Format: article
Langue:EN
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Publié: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte 2005
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/d3e138d5de5b4f65a7ffce4779fbf005
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Résumé:This work tries to apply the various meanings of the term frontera (border) (understood as a boundary, as colonizations front line, and as a symbolic and an ethnic divide) to the life experiences of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico, which unfolds in two phases: asylum and integration. An analysis of information gathered from fieldwork during these two processes lays bare the prominence, in the first phase, of the border as a political boundary, whereas prevalence of ethnic divisions characterizes the second phase, as the former refugees and Mexicans who were interviewed revealed.