Guatemalan Structural Inequalities"My host brother Juan, during a dinner conversation, told me that he saved money–3,500 Quetzales or 500 dollars–for nearly a decade to purchase a U.S. visa so that he could raise his children in a “free” country. He is 36 years old and has been consistently denied access to any sort of visa because of his ethnicity as an Ixil Mayan."
See the highlighted section of my paper below. |