Through ethnographic research with indigenous migrant youth and their families in Guatemala, Southern Mexico, and the United States, Lauren Heidbrink’s timely book demonstrates “how migration is socially constructed, practiced, and experienced” (p. 3), or what she terms “migranthood.” Migranthood begins with the arrival of 70,000 unaccompanied children from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras at the US-Mexico border in 2014. Heidbrink complicates the widely accepted narrative of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis by demonstrating that it was, in fact, a policy crisis long in the making and largely a result of US economic and political intervention in Central America. The effects of US and foreign intervention directly affect indigenous Guatemalan migrants, who have resorted to migration as a collective and historically rooted survival strategy against racism, historical violence, and intergenerational structural inequality in Guatemala. US immigration policy, however, classifies unaccompanied youth as economic migrants rather than as refugees, a stance the United States has long taken toward Central Americans.

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书评：移民：驱逐出境新时代的青年

通过与危地马拉，南墨西哥和美国的土著移民青年及其家庭进行的人种志研究，Lauren Heidbrink的及时著作证明了“如何在社会上构建，实践和体验移民”（第3页），或她所说的“移民身份”。 。” 移民首先是2014年，来自危地马拉，萨尔瓦多和洪都拉斯的70,000名无人陪伴的儿童抵达美墨边境。海德布林克通过证明事实上是长期以来的政策危机，使这一被广泛接受的对前所未有的人道主义危机的叙述变得复杂美国在中美洲进行经济和政治干预的结果，并且在很大程度上是其结果。美国和外国干预的影响直接影响到危地马拉的土著移民，他们将移民作为集体和历史上根植于危地马拉的种族主义，历史暴力和代际结构不平等的生存策略。但是，美国的移民政策将无人陪伴的年轻人归为经济移民而不是难民，这是美国长期以来对中美洲人的立场。