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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520386140
ISBN-139780520386143
eBay Product ID (ePID)28057250901
Product Key Features
Book TitleReunion : Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador
Number of Pages370 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSociology / General, Human Rights, World / Caribbean & Latin American
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorElizabeth Barnert
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2022-017152
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsBarnert's compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history.
Dewey Decimal362.828097284
Table Of ContentContents Author's Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia's Reunion 10. Carmen's Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria's Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005-2006) 18. Father Jon's Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro's Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela's Story (2006-2020) 22. Angela's Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela's Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela's El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children's Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
SynopsisIn 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members. Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military "scorched-earth" operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war., This captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran civil war. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, and family separations, the joy of reunion and the arduous process of reintegration. Barnert works alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former rebel fighters, and reformed gang members. She meets an eight-year-old journeying north to reunite with her mother and a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois, along with his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military raid, and never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. Told through the voices of activists and survivors, this groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world.
LC Classification NumberHQ574.B37 2023
