TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sittig,Ann L.
AU  - González,Martha Florinda
TI  - The Mayans among us: migrant women and meatpacking on the Great Plains 
SN  - 978-1-4962-0847-7
AV  - F675.G82 S57 2016
U1  - 305.48/6872810782 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Guatemalans
KW  - Nebraska
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Maya women
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Packing house workers
KW  - GUATEMALA
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - Guatemala: life before emigration -- Guatemalan civil war and postwar rebuilding -- The journey to El Norte -- Religious practice and community life in Nebraska -- Mayans and meatpacking in Nebraska
N2  - The Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig, a Spanish instructor, and Martha Florinda González, a Mayan community leader living in Nebraska, have gathered the oral histories of contemporary Mayan women living in the state and working in meatpacking plants. Sittig and González initiated group dialogues with Mayan women about the psychological, sociological, and economic wounds left by war, poverty, immigration, and residence in a new country. Distinct from Latin America's economic immigrants and often overlooked in media coverage of Latino and Latina migration to the plains, the Mayans share their concerns and hopes as they negotiate their new home, culture, language, and life in Nebraska. Longtime Nebraskans share their perspectives on the immigrants as well
ER  -