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Discusses the Maya people who fled Guatemala due to a civil war and illegally entered the U.S. and settled in Florida. Presents a picture of their living conditions, employment opportunities, cultural traditions, community development, and family organization. Discusses a Kanjobal Association and the CORN-MAYA program, and explains immigration problems. (JS)

The conflicts and crises arising from a federally funded educational program initiated in a rural school district are discussed. (JD)

The article explores the cultural context of a new bilingual education program in a small Southwestern town through the use of ethnographic research. The ethnographic perspective focuses on how a bilingual program can be seen as operating in the three fields of individual classrooms, school administration, and community. (Author/NQA)

Return of Guatemala's Refugees: Reweaving the Torn. By Clark Taylor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. Pp. 228. This book is a case study of the return process of Guatemalan refugees [...]

Mexico occupies the unique position of having an overt policy of 'indigenism' or the development and use of indigenous culture in the national political arena. Indigenous strength, seen on the [...]

Rural communities in the United States are often oriented toward the procurement of outside resources so that population and economic growth can occur. Western towns in harsh arid or semiarid environments seem especially prone to such a sociocultural pose. The idea of a "cargo cult" as a principle of community organization is useful in explaining how a small town can harness dramatic change for the good of local residents. This article reviews the significant features of cargo cults in Oceania and then applies the concept to a small community in the Western United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines interviews with men who have experienced strokes. 'Control interviews' with persons who had experienced health problems not related to stroke were also conducted, and they are considered here as well. Unlike most studies of stroke patients' linguistic competence, which examine subjects in isolation and in clinical settings, these interviews were conducted in the patients' homes, with the patients' spouses present in all of the interviews. The analysis concerns the ways in which the spouses participate in the telling of narratives that describe the unfolding of the stroke event as such. At the beginning of every interview with stroke patients the interviewers asked what happened during the stroke proper. The spouses' participation in these stories is significant and sustained, whereas the patients' own mastery of such narratives is meagre although the narratives comprise details from their personal somatic experience. We specify several discreet interactional patterns that make up the stroke patients' dearth of agency in these tellings, compare the interactional dynamics in the interviews with 'control' patients, and discuss the significance of these interactional minutiae for the patients' well-being and also for sociological investigations of 'the brain' and related issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Farmworkers, farmworker advocates, state and federal policy-makers, and researchers all consider adequate housing as central to successful migration, community building, and quality of life, including good health, among farmworkers. This study analyzes results from interviews and focus groups with stakeholders involved in Florida farmworker housing conducted with the goal of providing recommendations for future farmworker housing policy. These recommendations include considering housing needs within a life continuum and understanding how wages and housing are interconnected. The concurring perspectives of stakeholders can be considered as building blocks in developing more effective state and local housing policy.