In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities, Updated Edition

by Patricia Foxen

In the mid-1990s, Patricia Foxen traveled back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, to understand the migration paths of K'iche' Mayan Indians who had fled the Guatemalan civil war to work in the factories and fisheries of New England. More than two decades later, many Mayans are still migrating to the US, today part of the "border crisis" that prompted the Trump administration's ruthless immigration and asylum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826501362
• ISBN13: 9780826501363
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"