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Beyond displacement : campesinos, refugees, and collective action in the Salvadoran civil war /

During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome bodily mutilations. Even as human rights violatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Todd, Molly
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010.
Series:Critical human rights.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a people without history
  • Remapping the tierra olvidada
  • Organizing flight : the Guinda system
  • Internationalizing La Guinda
  • The politics of exile
  • Salvadorans to the soul : citizen refugees and La Lucha
  • (Re)writing national history from exile
  • ¡Retorno! : the grassroots repopulation movement
  • Conclusion : campesinos, collective organization, and social change.