Exiled Home

Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence

Susan Bibler Coutin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6163-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States; Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency; and The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Violence and Silence 21

2. Living in the Gap 55

3. Dreams 95

4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129

5. Biographies and Nations 165

Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205

Appendix 227

Notes 231

References 241

Index 265

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Global Insecurities
Zusatzinfo	8 photographs
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6163-9 / 0822361639
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6163-3 / 9780822361633
Zustand	Neuware