Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies (review)
served to devalue local textile products. She analyzes how migration does not necessarily lead to economic success for Mayas and can actually contribute to negative social consequences. She also addresses some negative impacts of the post-peace period (after 1996) in Guatemala, in which demilitarization and economic development has opened niches for maras (violent gangs) to extort money from factory workers who leave and return from their rural, isolated homes in the dark with little means to protect themselves.