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Title Journeys of fear : refugee return and national transformation in Guatemala / edited by Liisa L. North and Alan B. Simmons
Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 337 pages)
Contents Contents -- Tables and Maps -- Preface -- 1 Fear and Hope: Return and Transformation in Historical Perspective -- PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL-ECONOMIC SETTING -- 2 Reflections on the Problems of Democracy in Guatemala -- 3 Land and Peace: Two Points of View -- PART TWO: NEGOTIATING AND MONITORING THE PEACE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS -- 4 Paradigms of Negotiation and Democratization in Guatemala -- 5 Maximizing the Benefits of UN Involvement in the Guatemala Peace Process -- PART THREE: LAND, LABOUR, AND MIGRATION
6 Somos de la Tierra: Land and the Guatemalan Refugee Return7 Migration and the Displaced in Guatemala City in the Context of a Flawed National Transformation -- 8 Exodus and Return with a Changing Migration System -- PART FOUR: IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY: GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND PLACE -- 9 The Unexpected Consequences of Violence: Rethinking Gender Roles and Ethnicity -- 10 To Whom Shall the Nation Belong? The Gender and Ethnic Dimension of Refugee Return and the Struggle for Peace in Guatemala -- 11 Democratization and Popular Women's Organizations
12 Guatemalan Refugees and Returnees: Place and Maya IdentityPART FIVE: NGO NETWORKS AND GOVERNMENTAL ASSISTANCE -- 13 Theorizing Accompaniment -- 14 Canadian Foreign Aid as Support for Human Rights and Democratization in Guatemala -- 15 Concluding Reflections: Refugee Return, National Transformation, and Neoliberal Restructuring -- Appendix: Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332)
Notes Print version record
Subject Return migration -- Guatemala
Negotiation -- Guatemala -- History
Mayas -- Guatemala -- Government relations
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Economic history
Mayas -- Government relations
Negotiation
Politics and government
Return migration
Social conditions
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004386
Guatemala -- Economic conditions -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003223
Guatemala -- Social conditions
Subject Guatemala
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author North, Liisa.
Simmons, Alan B. (Alan Burtham), 1941-
ISBN 9780773567931
0773567933
Other Titles Refugee return and national transformation in Guatemala