US/Mexico Border – Indigenous asylum seekers struggle for interpreters in US (Luis Chaparro, Al Jazeera)

July 4, 2021

For Claudia, the journey from her small Guatemalan village to the US-Mexico border was complicated by the fact she could speak only her native Ixil, one of 21 Mayan languages in Guatemala.

On way to what she had hoped would be asylum in the United States, she communicated with the smugglers with hand gestures and the few words of Spanish she knew, to ask for water, food, money, and to go to the toilet.

Indigenous asylum seekers struggle for interpreters in US | Indigenous Rights News | Al Jazeera

Two Raramuri adolescents wait for a bus to go back to their home villages in the Sierra Tarahumara [Luis Chaparro/Al Jazeera]

Two Raramuri adolescents wait for a bus to go back to their home villages in the Sierra Tarahumara [Luis Chaparro/Al Jazeera]

Marco Emanuele

Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

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