This article explores how indigenous migrants experience the sociopolitical and existential condition of "illegality" in the United States. Drawing on the experiences of Maya migrants from Yucatán, Mexico, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I argue that the specter of state surveillance and the threat of law enforcement produce a particular politics of (im)mobility for indigenous migrants. This local politics of mobility takes form through spatial tactics of invisibility and visibility. Tracing migrants' tactical maneuvers through public space, I show how their relations to space, place, and movement alter cultural sensibilities of tranquilidad (tranquility), and further instantiate "illegality" as a site of exclusion. This analysis of the experiential effects of anticipated surveillance provides a deeper understanding of the power of the state to enforce migrant "illegality" even in cities that promise official sanctuary. [immigration, mobility, law, indigenous, Maya]
R e s u m e n Este artículo trata la materialización del hogar y la herencia en el contexto de la migración indígena de Yucatán, México, a los Estados Unidos. Analizo la manera en que la realidad contemporánea de la migración Maya, junto con el largo legado de desarraigo y de apropiación cultural, forman la manera en que los migrantes interactúan día a día con la cultura material que los rodea. La manipulación por los migrantes indígenas de objetos a los cuales se les asignan propósitos nuevos que enlazan la vida migrante a la cultura del pueblo y a la herencia arqueológica, toma una prominencia y un significado particular en el contexto de la migración transnacional. A través de encuentros táctiles y visuales con objetos re-definidos que funcionan como indicadores de la identidad Maya y la distinción cultural, los migrantes se re-apoderan de la herencia tangible y crean una "estética de herencia" que les permite reclamar custodia de lugar, hogar, y pertenencia. En retrospectiva, los objetos usados en este proceso permiten que el migrante solidifique una identidad indígenaétnica emergente que depende de conexiones emocionales con su hogar al igual que con su pasado pre-Hispánico. [etnicidad, identidad, indigenismo, migración, México] A b s t r a c tThis article addresses the materiality of home and heritage in the context of indigenous migration between Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States. It analyzes how the contemporary realities of Maya migration, coupled with enduring legacies of dispossession and cultural appropriation, shape migrants' everyday engagements with material culture. Indigenous migrants' manipulation of repurposed objects that link migrant life to both pueblo culture and archaeological inheritance has an altered significance in the context of transnational migration. Through tactile and visual engagements with
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