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      Difusión transnacional de identidades juveniles en la expansión de las maras centroamericanas

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          Las maras Salvatrucha y Barrio 18 son dos pandillas juveniles violentas con amplia presencia en América Central y Estados Unidos. Estos grupos reciben atención creciente por parte de los académicos debido a sus progresivos vínculos transnacionales y los inusitados niveles de violencia que utilizan; este artículo plantea que su expansión a través de las fronteras nacionales se explica en gran medida por su capacidad para generar un atractivo marco de referencia identitario que resuena positivamente en el repertorio cultural de los jóvenes del área centroamericana. La política de deportaciones del gobierno estadounidense, las medidas de "mano dura" implementadas por algunos gobiernos de la región y los movimientos migratorios están facilitando la difusión de esas identidades en el espacio centroamericano a lo largo de la última década.

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          The maras Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are two youth violent gangs with widespread presence in Central America and the United States. These gangs are attracting the attention of the scientific community because of their growing transnational links and the unusual levels of violence deployed. This article posits that the transnational expansion of the maras Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 is largely explained by their ability to generate an attractive identity framework of reference that resounds positively with the cultural background of young men of the Central American area. The policy of deportations of the United States government, the use of "iron hand" measures by some governments of the region and the migratory movements facilitated the diffusion of these identities across Central America throughout the last decade.

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                Contributors
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                Role: ND
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                perlat
                Perfiles latinoamericanos
                Perf. latinoam.
                Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Académica de México
                0188-7653
                December 2007
                : 15
                : 30
                : 101-122
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas México
                [2 ] University of Sussex Reino Unido
                [3 ] Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas México
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                S0188-76532007000200005
                407cab9a-9a72-4948-a615-fc9ecd7b6b11

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

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                Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

                Sociology
                América Central,juventud,violencia,maras,difusión transnacional,pandillas,Central America,youth,violence,transnational diffusion,gangs

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