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- Title
Les protecteurs surnaturels des migrants mexicains.
- Authors
Reynoso-Rábago, Alfonso; González-Pérez, Cándido; Medrano-Hernández, Hugo Adrián
- Abstract
A large number of Mexican workers enter the United States to find work. In their pursuit of the "American dream" many of these migrants, especially those who cross the border illegally, seek the aid of supernatural protectors. Among these, we find the figures of Juan Soldado, Jesús Malverde and Santo Toribio Romo. Although the latter is a saint officially recognized by the Catholic Church, the other two are not. The authors seek to understand the "voice of others" through a structural analysis of three narratives regarding these protectors of Mexican migrants. The narratives and the cult related to these Saints can be situated within the field of popular religion. The authors conceive this as a movement that is largely independent of ecclesiastical control, a product of modernity, and as a religious expression that pursues practical and terrestrial rather than spiritual ends.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEXICAN foreign workers; AMERICAN Dream; SUPERNATURAL beings; EMIGRATION &; immigration; UNDOCUMENTED immigrants; MALVERDE, Jesus (Legendary character); ROMO, Toribio, Saint, 1900-1928; VENERATION of Christian saints; WORSHIP of saints; MIGRANT labor
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 1/2, p61
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1007498ar