IndIgenous MIgratIon In MexIco and central  aMerIca: In the Footsteps oF MIchael Kearney 

Issue editors: LAURA VELASCO ORTIZ AND DOLORES PARIS PMBO 

contents 

Introduction 

Indigenous Migration in Mexico and central america: Interethnic relations and Identity transformations LAURA VELASCO ORTIZ AND DOLORES PARIS PMBO . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

Articles 

Transnational Indigenous communities: the Intellectual legacy  of Michael Kearney GASPAR RIVERA-SALGADO  . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Transborder/transnational citizenships: Migrants and anthropologists:  a response to Gaspar Rivera-salgado LYNN STEPHEN  . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Transnational ethnic processes: Indigenous Mexican Migrations  to the united states LAURA VELASCO ORTIZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 

Purhépechas in tarecuato and chicago: shifts in local power structures  through  transnational negotiations STEPHANIE SCHUTZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 

Justice and Its Margins: understanding the effects of the state on  Indigenous Migrants to the united states YERKO CASTRO NEIRA. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 90 

Transnational Migration, customary governance, and the Future of community:  a case study from oaxaca, Mexico JAMES P. ROBSON AND RAYMOND WIEST. . . . . 103 

From amate paper Making to global Work: otomí Migration from puebla  to north carolina MARIA EUGENIA D'AUBETERRE BUZNEGO AND MARIA LETICIA RIVERMAR PEREZ   . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 

Breaking the spiral of Violence: politics and Migration in the  lower triqui region DOLORES PARIS POMBO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Trapped Behind the lines: the Impact of undocumented Migration, debt, and  recession on a tsotsil community of chiapas, Mexico, 2002–2012 DIANE L. RUS AND JAN RUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 

Identity strategies and consciousness shifts of sanmiguelense Mixtec youth in  transnational and transcultural spaces GEORGIA MELVILLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 

Maya cultural resistance in los angeles: the recovery of Identity and  culture among Maya youth GIOVANNI BATS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Transforming experience through english use and service-oriented cultural  capital: Indigenous honduran Immigrants to the u .s . southwest SHANNON REIERSON AND SYLVIA CELEDON PATTICHIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 

Photo Essay 

The people of clouds MATT BLACK  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 

Book Reviews 

How Mexicans have taken history into their own hands: Migration  and Its Impact across Borders SUSAN ECKSTEIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 

The production of phantoms and exclusions: unveiling Indigenous Migrations ROCIO GIL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 

Film Review 

The outsiders: pathways of Migratory experience in latin american Films OSCAR MORALDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 237