The Cost of Safety : Central American Young People's Notions of Home.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carranza, Mirna.

Series:

Latinx Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Lived Places Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

Examines the experiences of Central American young people displaced by the violence associated with globalization, neoliberalism, and ongoing coloniality.

Contents:

FrontCover

Half-Title

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Information

Abstract

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Borders and the translocal

The Colonial Grid

Translocal lives

Background

The borders of the colonial migrant

Theoretical Frameworks

The coloniality of power

The coloniality of gender

Circular making of home

Orientations of movement

Conclusion

2 Arrival and age: Central American young people

Central American young people

A better life and assimilation

It is better to come young

Discussion questions

Notes

3 Women and resistance

Central American women

Background: Central America

Central America, gender, and violence: The portrayal from the Global North

Central American women at home and in the diaspora

The colonial grid: Coloniality of gender

4 Care, resistance, and the translocal in Nicaragua

Community care

Community in Nicaragua and the diaspora

Community in the translocal

Recognition and reconciliation for the future

5 Diasporic futures: Honduran migration and the transnational space

History and background

6 No se entiene el Corazón Indio sino en su silencio (The Indian heart cannot be understood except in its silence): Silence and the colonial grid

Historical silence

Silence at home and in the diaspora

References

Recommended further reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-915734-12-6

1-915734-13-4

9781915734129

OCLC:

1564842797