Mamá Chocó.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender and Transnational Migrations.

Forced resettlement.

Local Subjects:

Gender and Transnational Migrations.

Forced resettlement.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Cali, Valle del Cauca Department : Making Docs, 2015.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Chocó is one of the regions with the greatest natural and hydraulic wealth in the world, hence our character: Paulina, a fertile woman like her land, mother of 26 children, midwife and artist. A person with a joy and love for life surprising. One day a bombing forces her to leave her house and her land together with her family and neighbors. Along with thousands of displaced people, they walk for months until they reach Cali, the third city in Colombia. Left to their own devices, they have no choice but to settle down in a house made of wood, plastic and dirt. It is the symbol of millions of people displaced by war from their homes in the countryside, by the sea or in the jungle, where they know how to fish, cultivate and raise livestock, but in cities they have no options, nobody gives a displaced person a job. With songs, Paulina evokes her people and takes us on an imaginary journey to a region rich and at the same time desolated by war, where we listen to the voice of those who stayed behind. It is the chronicle of the pain of exile and the struggle to live with dignity in a place that calls home.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 22, 2021).