Resumen

KAUFFER MICHEL, Edith F.. De la frontera política a las fronteras étnicas: Refugiados guatemaltecos en México. Frontera norte [online]. 2005, vol.17, n.34, pp.07-36. ISSN 2594-0260.

This work tries to apply the various meanings of the term frontera (border) (understood as a boundary, as colonization's front line, and as a symbolic and an ethnic divide) to the life experiences of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico, which unfolds in two phases: asylum and integration. An analysis of information gathered from fieldwork during these two processes lays bare the prominence, in the first phase, of the border as a political boundary, whereas prevalence of ethnic divisions characterizes the second phase, as the former refugees and Mexicans who were interviewed revealed.

Palabras llave : asylum; ethnicity; integration; southeast México; Guatemala-Chiapas border.