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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| Language: | EN ES |
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El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
2005
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/d3e138d5de5b4f65a7ffce4779fbf005 |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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