2011, Number 2
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Rev Elec Psic Izt 2011; 14 (2)
Mexican migrants and their participation in the host communities
Ibarra TYM
Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 361-382
PDF size: 185.18 Kb.
ABSTRACT
The central subject is the participation of the indigenous
mexican migrants in the host communities. I concentrate the
attention in mixtec participation in the city of Arvin, California,
where whole families have been settlement from the decade of
the 90’s. I use the accomplishment of the Mixteco Festival
whose purpose is to celebrate to San Juan Bautista, patrono
from their homeland in Oaxaca. The festival is carried out in the
city of Arvin since 2001, counts on the participation and the
support of instances of the local government, nongovernmental
organizations, mass media, organizations of migrant and
others. At present it agglutinates to the mixtec community but
also to mexican mestizos and anglo population that every year
meet to be present at one of the most important festivals of the
city. The description of the Festival allows to observe the forms
which the mixtecos are gotten up to the host society without this
implies necessarily, lost their culture characteristic. At the same
time, it lets see how migrants maintaining strong ties with his
community of origin, and participate in the city which now they
live and where his children and grandsons born.
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