Deciding To Be Legal

By Jacqueline Maria Hagan

Offering a study the settlement process of undocumented migrants, this book examines one of Houston's Maya communities, the approximately 900 Maya from a township in the Department of Totonicapan, Guatemala. It traces this Maya community from its genesis in 1978 to the complex effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156639256X
• ISBN13: 9781566392563
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"