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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2018/03/19/a-minority-within-a-minority/

A Minority within a Minority
by Elizabeth Jenner and Maria Konkel
March 19, 2018

Educational obstacles faced by immigrant Mayan English language learners (ELLs) in the U.S. are typically compounded by residual effects of inequity originally experienced in their home countries, where indigenous Mayan populations have long suffered a brand of neo-racism that has manifested into substandard education (Mijangos-Noh, 2009, pp. 3–7).

Many Mayan children who graduate from elementary school do so without having become literate in their first language, “and an undetermined number finish… without knowing how to read and write in any language” (Mijangos-Noh, 2009, p. 5). In this article, we aim to present an overview of the factors that have led to Mayan ELLs’ disadvantages in education and what educators can do to assist this population.

Read the full article at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2018/03/19/a-minority-within-a-minority/