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Overview
Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions is a pioneering, comprehensive, and multifaceted study of Guatemalan migration to the United States from the late 1970s to the present. It analyzes this migration in a regional context including Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. This book illuminates the perilous passage through Mexico for Guatemalan migrants, as well as their settlement in various U.S. venues. Moreover, it builds on existing theoretical frameworks and breaks new ground by analyzing the construction and transformations of this migration region and transregional dimensions of migration.
Seamlessly blending multiple sociological perspectives, this book addresses the experiences of both Maya and ladino Guatemalan migrants, incorporating gendered as well as ethnic and class dimensions of migration. It spans the most violent years of the civil war and the postwar years in Guatemala, hence including both refugees and labor migrants. The demographic chapter delineates five phases of Guatemalan migration to the United States since the late 1970s, with immigrants experiencing both inclusion and exclusion very dramatically during the most recent phase, in the early twenty-first century. This book also features an innovative study of Guatemalan migrant rights organizing in the United States and transregionally in Guatemala/Central America and Mexico. The two contrasting in-depth case studies of Guatemalan communities in Houston and San Francisco elaborate in vibrant detail the everyday experiences and evolving stories of the immigrants’ lives.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780292763142 |
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| Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 310 |
| File size: | 7 MB |
About the Author
NESTOR RODRÍGUEZ is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. With Cecilia Menjívar, he coedited When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror. He has studied Central American migration to the United States and the formation of Latino immigrant settlements for more than two decades.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Theoretical Perspectives: Guatemalan Migration and Regionalization
Chapter 2. Phases of Migration
Chapter 3. Organizing for Migrant Rights
Chapter 4. Settlement and Transformations in Houston
Chapter 5. Contradictions of the San Francisco Area
Chapter 6. Transregional Passage
Notes
Bibliography
Index
What People are Saying About This
"In this in-depth, meticulous examination, Jonas and Rodríguez combine historical information, rich data, and theoretical arguments to present an impressive, nuanced overview of Guatemalan migration to the United States. Its relevance goes beyond this case, however, as it offers stimulating insights into the meanings of space and place in the study of migratory flows. It is a great contribution to the immigration scholarship, and I highly recommend it."
"Guatemala-U.S. Migration is an essential book for understanding the dynamics of Guatemalan migration to the United States over the past four decades. Jonas and Rodríguez not only examine the root causes of migration—political repression, social exclusion, and poverty in Guatemala—but also illustrate how global developments and socioeconomic trends in the United States shaped its changing policies towards the arriving migrants. Undoubtedly, one of the book’s most invaluable contributions is to demonstrate, in heretofore unavailable detail, the central role that civil society actors, informal and formal organizations and networks, in Central America, Mexico, and the United States have played in advocating for and vindicating migrants’ rights and influencing policies throughout the region. This is a book for scholars, legal practitioners, and activists alike, who will benefit from its broad and deep examination of the issues."
"Without sounding too effusive, this book is something of a ‘tour de force.’ While there are books and other studies about Guatemalan immigrant communities, this book is a nice combination of theory, case study, and history. I know of no other book on Guatemala or indeed about other countries that accomplishes this. The writing is superb; the book is very readable."
"In this in-depth, meticulous examination, Jonas and Rodríguez combine historical information, rich data, and theoretical arguments to present an impressive, nuanced overview of Guatemalan migration to the United States. Its relevance goes beyond this case, however, as it offers stimulating insights into the meanings of space and place in the study of migratory flows. It is a great contribution to the immigration scholarship, and I highly recommend it."
"Susanne Jonas’ and Nestor Rodriguez’ book is a major contribution to understand the recent history and contemporary features of Guatemalan and, in general, Central American migrations to the United States. In my opinion, one of its outstanding merits lies in their highlighting the regional dimension of migration dynamics. They underline the evolution of this migration region, which is embedded in a host of unfavorable circumstances and perils, as well as the ongoing difficult development of migrants’ agency to fight for their rights, goals, and legitimate demands for better living conditions."
"Susanne Jonas’ and Nestor Rodriguez’ book is a major contribution to understand the recent history and contemporary features of Guatemalan and, in general, Central American migrations to the United States. In my opinion, one of its outstanding merits lies in their highlighting the regional dimension of migration dynamics. They underline the evolution of this migration region, which is embedded in a host of unfavorable circumstances and perils, as well as the ongoing difficult development of migrants’ agency to fight for their rights, goals, and legitimate demands for better living conditions."