Going Home: Giving Voice to Memory Strategies of Young Mayan Refugees Who Returned to Guatemala as a Community
Going Home: Giving Voice to Memory Strategies of Young Mayan Refugees Who Returned to Guatemala as a Community
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回家：以社区形式返回危地马拉的年轻玛雅难民的记忆策略
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2001
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P. Foxen
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C. Rousseau;Maria Morales;P. Foxen
1982 年左右，数千名危地马拉玛雅人逃离村庄和土地，以逃避在农村地区实施的里奥斯蒙特焦土政策。经过十多年的流亡，这些难民中的许多人已经返回家园。本文探讨了在墨西哥长期流亡后返回家园的年轻玛雅难民如何适应并远离集体回家计划。对两个玛雅回返者社区进行了比较，他们流亡和重返家园的道路略有不同。国际组织的外部支持和难民营的凝聚力使拉维多利亚的年轻人能够从强势和对抗的立场上揭露痛苦的过去，这是社会变革的关键。在《埃斯佩兰萨》中，年轻人围绕回避近代历史重建了过去，而传统则成为过去与未来之间的桥梁。两个社区的年轻人构建家园的方式表明，移民经历的微小变化可能会导致策略选择的巨大差异，并提出了可能为这些人群制定的援助计划的重要问题。
Around 1982, thousands of Guatemalan Mayas fled their villagesand lands to escape the Ríos Montt scorched-earth policyimplemented in rural areas. After more than a decade of exile,many of those refugees have returned to their homeland. Thispaper looks at the ways in which young Mayan refugees who havereturned home after extended exile in Mexico appropriate anddistance themselves from the collective project of going home. Two Mayan communities of retornados (returnees), whose paths into exile and home again differ slightly, are compared. Outsidesupport from international organizations and cohesion in therefugee camps enabled the young people of La Victoria to seedisclosure of the traumatic past from a position of strength andconfrontation as the key to social change. In La Esperanza, thepast is rebuilt by the youth around avoidance of recent history,and tradition appears as a bridge between past and future. Theway the youth of the two communities construct their homecomingdemonstrates how small changes in the migration experience mayresult in considerable differences in the choice of strategies,and raises important questions about assistance programs thatmight be developed for these populations.