Colonial Dislocations and Incorporation of Indigenous Migrants From Mexico to the United States

Abstract

Mexican-origin indigenous migration to the United States has a long history, overlapping colonialisms contribute to it, and dialectical systems of racial, class, and gender oppression shape its magnitude and form of incorporation, as equals or nonequals. This article specifically seeks to illuminate how the continuous colonial logics and acts shape indigenous migrants’ incorporation and emergent migrant identities in a global context of social inequalities. I provide a social-historical context of Mexican-origin indigenous migration and of the melting-pot concept that obfuscates the internal diversity and indigenous makeup of this long-historical migration rooted to European colonialism and its emergent forms.