Volume 4, Issue 1 (2022) Between Two Worlds

Maya America presents Between Two Worlds as a single full issue, which best achieves the goals of the editors to provide a cohesive work on the experiences and perspectives of adoptees who were taken from Guatemala. The finished product includes reflections, conversations, conference presentations, virtual panels, videos, creative works, novel excerpts, and university coursework, thus providing an individual and collective outlook. Essays were chosen and carefully arranged to produce a combined message. Between Two Worlds is offered to the reader as a stand-alone primary document to further an understanding of the life experiences of Guatemalan adoptees and to encourage the inclusion of irregular adoption as part of the Maya diaspora and as an integral part of the migration of peoples from Central America.