A Return to Servitude : Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún /

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As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state's modernization plan for rural, indigenous communit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castellanos, María Bianet (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tourism.
Social conditions.
Migration, Internal.
Mayas > Social conditions.
Mayas > Migrations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
HISTORY.
Migration interieure > Mexique > Yucatán (État)
Mayas > Mexique > Cancún > Conditions sociales.
Tourism > Mexico > Cancún.
Migration, Internal > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Mayas > Mexico > Cancún > Social conditions.
Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Mexico > Cancún.
Cancún (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state's modernization plan for rural, indigenous communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up over a third of the city's population. A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatán Peninsula, M. Bianet Ca.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780816674992

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