LEADER 03463nam 22006013u 450 001 9910454349403321 005 20210331223733.0 010 $a1-282-04724-8 010 $a1-4399-0122-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724469 035 $a(EBL)432881 035 $a(OCoLC)320549289 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000199509 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000199509 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189976 035 $a(PQKB)10431087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432881 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724469 100 $a20131216d2000|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaya Diaspora$b[electronic resource] $eGuatemalan Roots, New American Lives 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-56639-794-4 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Maya Diaspora: Introduction; 2. Survivors on the Move: Maya Migration in Time and Space; 3. Flight, Exile, Repatriation, and Return: Guatemalan Refugee Scenarios, 1981-1998; 4. Space and Identity in Testimonies of Displacement: Maya Migration to Guatemala City in the 1980's; 5. Organizing in Exile: The Reconstruction of Community in the Guatemalan Refugee Camps of Southern Mexico; 6. Challenges of Return and Reintegration; 7. A Maya Voice: The Maya of Mexico City; 8. Becoming Belizean: Maya Identity and the Politics of Nation 327 $a9. La Huerta: Transportation Hub in the Arizona Desert 10. Indiantown, Florida: The Maya Diaspora and Applied Anthropology; 11. A Maya Voice: The Refugees in Indiantown, Florida; 12. The Maya of Morganton: Exploring Worker Identity within the Global Marketplace; 13. Maya Urban Villagers in Houston: The Formation of a Migrant Community from San Cristobal Totonicapan; 14. A Maya Voice: Living in Vancouver; 15. Maya in a Modern Metropolis: Establishing New Lives and Livelihoods in Los Angeles; 16. Conclusion: The Maya Diaspora Experience; Epilogue: EIiIaI/Exilio; References 327 $aAbout the Contributors Index 330 $aMaya people have lived for thousands of years in the mountains and forests of Guatemala, but they lost control of their land, becoming serfs and refugees, when the Spanish invaded in the sixteenth century. Under the Spanish and the Guatemalan non-Indian elites, they suffered enforced poverty as a resident source of cheap labor for non-Maya projects, particularly agriculture production. Following the CIA-induced coup that toppled Guatemala's elected government in 1954, their misery was exacerbated by government accommodation to United States ""interests,"" which promoted crops for export a 606 $aMayas - Guatemala - Migrations 606 $aMayas - Relocation - North America 606 $aMayas - Relocation - United States 606 $aMayas 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aMayas - Guatemala - Migrations. 615 4$aMayas - Relocation - North America. 615 4$aMayas - Relocation - United States. 615 4$aMayas. 676 $a970.004/974152 676 $a972.81016 700 $aLoucky$b James$0885230 702 $aMoors$b Marilyn M 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454349403321 996 $aMaya Diaspora$91976526 997 $aUNINA