Child Survivors of Genocide
Trauma, Resilience, and Identity in Guatemala
Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0229-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0229-9 (ISBN)
This book examines the experiences of orphaned child survivors of Guatemala’s 36-year internal armed conflict and genocide who were raised in an in-country permanent residential home. Now adults, they have faced long-term consequences but also have become resilient, well-adapted adults with a strong sense of identity and belonging.
Child Survivors of Genocide: Trauma, Resilience, and Identity in Guatemala presents mixed-method, comparative ethnographic research conducted with orphaned child survivors who are now adults. These survivors were orphaned during Guatemala’s 36-year internal armed conflict and particularly during the heightened period of genocide from 1978 to 1983, referred to as la violencia. Raised for the majority of their childhoods in a family-style permanent residential home in the highlands region, the author examines the long-term consequences that these individuals have faced not only from grieving the loss of their parents and family members but also because of their orphan status. While they suffer from lasting trauma, these child survivors have become resilient, well-adapted adults with a strong internalized sense of ethnic identity. They also engage in creative and transformative practices regarding ethnic identity and belonging that have contributed to their abilities to adapt to their life circumstances in positive, constructive ways, and have expanded what it means to be Maya Indigenous Guatemalans today. Child survivors’ experiences offer inspiration, justify expanded research with child survivors as their own distinct social group of survivors, and warrant reconsideration of in-country residential care when other forms of loving, nurturing in-country care are unavailable.
Child Survivors of Genocide: Trauma, Resilience, and Identity in Guatemala presents mixed-method, comparative ethnographic research conducted with orphaned child survivors who are now adults. These survivors were orphaned during Guatemala’s 36-year internal armed conflict and particularly during the heightened period of genocide from 1978 to 1983, referred to as la violencia. Raised for the majority of their childhoods in a family-style permanent residential home in the highlands region, the author examines the long-term consequences that these individuals have faced not only from grieving the loss of their parents and family members but also because of their orphan status. While they suffer from lasting trauma, these child survivors have become resilient, well-adapted adults with a strong internalized sense of ethnic identity. They also engage in creative and transformative practices regarding ethnic identity and belonging that have contributed to their abilities to adapt to their life circumstances in positive, constructive ways, and have expanded what it means to be Maya Indigenous Guatemalans today. Child survivors’ experiences offer inspiration, justify expanded research with child survivors as their own distinct social group of survivors, and warrant reconsideration of in-country residential care when other forms of loving, nurturing in-country care are unavailable.
Shirley A. Heying is applied anthropologist in the government sector.
Chapter 1: Origins and Orientations
Chapter 2: Destroying the Seed
Chapter 3: Trauma and Loss
Chapter 4: Trauma and Resilience
Chapter 5: Born Indigenous, Die Indigenous
Chapter 6: Making a Future
Chapter 7: Giving Away the Future
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.06.2022 |
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| Vorwort | Andre J. Holten |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 685 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0229-8 / 1793602298 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0229-9 / 9781793602299 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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