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Exiled home : Salvadoran transnational youth in the aftermath of violence / Susan Bibler Coutin.
LIBRA E184.S15 C688 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coutin, Susan Bibler, author.
- Series:
- Global insecurities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salvadorans--United States.
- Salvadorans.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children.
- Salvadorans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Salvadoran Americans.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- El Salvador--Emigration and immigration.
- El Salvador.
- Salvadorans--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Refugees--United States.
- Refugees.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980-1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many, grew up-with-distant memories of El Salvador and a profound sense of disjuncture in their adopted homeland. Through interviews in both countries, Coutin examines how they sought to understand and overcome the trauma of war and displacement through such strategies as recording community histories, advocating for undocumented immigrants, forging new relationships with the Salvadoran state, and, for those deported from the United States, reconstructing their lives in El Salvador. In focusing on the case of Salvadoran youth, Coutin's nuanced analysis shows how the violence associated with migration can be countered through practices that recuperate historical memory while also reclaiming national membership. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Violence and silence
- Chapter 2. Living in the gap
- Chapter 3. Dreams
- Chapter 4. Exiled home through deportation
- Chapter 5. Biographies and nations
- Conclusion. Re/membering exiled homes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822361442
- 0822361442
- 9780822361633
- 0822361639
- OCLC:
- 919341859
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