Reunion : finding the disappeared children of El Salvador / Elizabeth Barnert ; foreword by Philippe Bourgois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnert, Elizabeth, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Bourgois, Philippe I., 1956- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family reunification--El Salvador--21st century.

Family reunification.

Disappeared persons--El Salvador.

Disappeared persons.

Children--El Salvador.

Children.

Civil war--Social aspects--El Salvador.

Civil war.

El Salvador.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran civil war. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, and family separations, the joy of reunion and the arduous process of reintegration. Barnert works alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former rebel fighters, and reformed gang members. She meets an eight-year-old journeying north to reunite with her mother and a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois, along with his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military raid, and never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. Told through the voices of activists and survivors, this groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 PRO-BUSQUEDA AND THE DNA BANK (SUMMER 2005)

1. Arriving

2. Guarjila with Father Jon

3. At the Nunnery

4. Guerrilleras

5. Morazan

6. Gunshots

7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio

8. Fathers

9. Sonia's Reunion

10. Carmen's Reunion

11. Suchitoto with Maria Ines

12. Isabel and Gloria's Reunion

13. Meeting Angela

14. Meeting Pedro

15. Sandrita and New Separations

16. La Esperanza

17. Coming Home

pt. 2 FIFTY INTERVIEWS (WINTER 2005

2006)

18. Father Jon's Legacy

19. Back at Pro-Biisqueda

20. Pedro's Testimony

21. El Norte

pt. 3 ANGELA'S STORY (2006

2020)

22. Angela's Phone Reunion

23. Return to El Salvador

24. Angela's Reunion

25. Blanca and Ricardo

26. Remittance

27. Home to California with Angela

28. Berkeley Days Between

29. Angela's El Salvador

30. Onward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barnert, Elizabeth, 1979- Reunion

ISBN:

9780520386143

0520386140

9780520386150

0520386159

OCLC:

1328230676