El propósito de este artículo es analizar el pensamiento de varias mujeres en Centroamérica que lideran proyectos para disminuir la vulnerabilidad de las personas migrantes y fortalecer su bienestar. Este análisis se centra en una muestra de 17 entrevistas realizadas entre 2016 y 2017 por el Instituto Hemisférico de la Universidad de Nueva York. El argumento principal es que estas iniciativas están contribuyendo a crear una visión feminista para el futuro de las políticas migratorias. En particular, este pensamiento feminista representa una lógica fuerte para reivindicar los derechos de las personas migrantes en contra de la lógica neoliberal a raíz de las políticas migratorias actuales.
The Mosquito Kingdom was a confederation of Amerindian‐ and African‐descended people inhabiting the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. This confederation rose to prominence in the late seventeenth century, reaching the height of its power in the 1790s. The descendants of this confederation still inhabit Central America's Mosquito Coast, though today they are more commonly referred to by the ethnic and linguistic moniker Miskitu. This paper presents a historiographical analysis of the Mosquito Kingdom, evaluating the sources and methodologies that scholars have used to study the Mosquito people and their rise to power. Ultimately, this paper argues that despite recent advances demonstrating Mosquito agency and highlighting African contributions, several influential myths have continued in the historiography, such as the notion that the confederation's rise to power depended on access to European goods.
Este artículo examina las relaciones entre la Costa Rica colonial y el Reino Mosquito, una confederación afroindígena que surgió en la costa caribeña de Centroamérica durante el siglo XVII. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el periodo de negociación durante la primera mitad del siglo XVIII, a través del estudio de los intermediarios que manejaban estas negociaciones en la práctica. Una figura central de esta narración es el “mulato intérprete” Francisco Corella, quien fue el principal negociador del año 1711 hasta al menos 1724. Además de contar la historia de estas negociaciones, este artículo demuestra las contribuciones importantes de poblaciones diversas, incluso personas afrodescendientes a la historia de Costa Rica.
The purpose of this article is to assess the political, diplomatic, and ethnic dynamics of the Mosquito Kingdom, an Afro-indigenous alliance based along Central America's Caribbean coast, during the eighteenth century. Drawing from new archival sources—most notably those of the National Archives of Costa Rica—this essay first examines the political organization of the Mosquitos, demonstrating that early leaders consolidated their authority by unifying different factions into a powerful confederation with expansionist tendencies. This essay then presents new evidence against the hypothesis that ethnic rivalry was a major source of factional conflict within the kingdom and thereby calls for a reexamination of the causes of the confederation's descent into civil war in 1791.
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