In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities

Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, Patricia Foxen followed the migration paths of a community of K'iche' Indians, often acting as a courier to bring news and photographs to families. This ethnography juxtaposes the context of post-war reconstruction at home, shaped by a fragile institutional peace process and emerging pan-Maya movement, with the hidden, marginal lives of mostly undocumented K'iche' transmigrants in New England, and describes the continuous movement of people, money, symbols, and ideas between the two locations.

About the Author:
Patricia Foxen is a Research Associate at the Toronto General Hospital, Women's Health Program, cross-appointed at the University of Toronto Anthropology Department