| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Critical human rights |
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Critical human rights.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 violations drew world attention, repression and war displaced more than a quarter of El Salvador's population, both inside the country and beyond its borders. Beyond Displacement examines how the peasant campesinos of war-torn northern El Salvador responded to violence by taking to the hills. Molly Todd demonstrates that their flight was not hasty and chaotic, but was a deliberate strategy that grew out of a longer history of collective organization, mobilization, and self-defense. --From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Refugees -- El Salvador
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HISTORY.
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Refugees
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| SUBJECT |
El Salvador -- History -- Civil War, 1979-1992.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041474
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| Subject |
El Salvador
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780299250034 |
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0299250032 |
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0299250040 |
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9780299250041 |
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1282765957 |
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9781282765955 |
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9786612765957 |
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661276595X |
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