Abstract

VELASCO ORTIZ, Laura. Organización y liderazgo de migrantes indígenas en México y Estados Unidos: El caso del FIOB. Migr. desarro [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.23, pp.99-127. ISSN 1870-7599.

This article presents a reflection on possible changes in indigenous leaderships in different local contexts where the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations is active on both sides of the US-Mexico border. The aim is to question the dual visions of these leaderships, recovering the emic view of activists and practices of leaders within the organization, and to make an approach to the generational replacement issue in what appears to be a clear transnational political project, but with tensions with the local ethnic politics of each country.

Keywords : indigenous transnational leaderships; ethnic transnationalism; transnational organizations; FIOB; indigenous migration from Mexico to the United States.