Spatializing the Immobility of Guatemalan Transnationalism in Canada

Abstract

Through a transnational lens, I draw attention to the spatialization of Guatemalan refugee and immigrant settlement in Canada and highlight the relatively local and immobile lives, yet highly transnational social relations, that characterize their experience. Part of the challenge of understanding Guatemalan refugee transnationalism of the 1970s through the 1990s is the necessity to understand the political and policy context that refugees and immigrants fled from and entered into when they arrived in Canada. Of central concern are issues of Guatemalan political violence, Canadian foreign and immigration policies, socio-economic circumstances, and spatial concentration or dispersal of settlement—all of which factor into the vastly different experience and form of transnationalism than the more thoroughly documented American- and Mexican-destination scenarios.

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