Open AccessMás allá de la frontera. Movilidad y reconfiguraciones familiares entre los chuj de México y Guatemala
Author(s) -
María Teresa Rodríguez López,
Álvaro Eduardo Caballeros Herrera
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
frontera norte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0187-7372
DOI - 10.33679/rfn.v1i1.1972
Subject(s) - refugee , geography , indigenous , citizenship , ethnography , humanities , spanish civil war , settlement (finance) , population , ethnology , socioeconomics , political science , sociology , demography , archaeology , art , politics , ecology , world wide web , computer science , law , payment , biology
In 1981, thousands of indigenous Guatemalans fled the civil war in their country, taking refuge in the first instance in Chiapas, Mexico, near the border line. In 1996 the Peace Agreements were reached, and part of the refugee population returned to Guatemala, while another fraction remained in Mexico, in localities of the states of Chiapas, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. This triple process –refuge, return, and/or definitive settlement in Mexico– resulted in new dynamics of movement and cross-border mobility, as well as in the reconfiguration of family and parental groups based on differentiated citizenship status. In this article, we provide analytical elements associated with these dynamics, based on the ethnographic observation carried out in the returnee village of Yalambojoch, in the department of Huehuetenango, municipality of Nentón, Guatemala, and in Santa Rosa el Oriente, a town in Chiapas that received refugees.