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Author Todd, Molly.

Title Beyond displacement : campesinos, refugees, and collective action in the Salvadoran civil war / Molly Todd.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical human rights
Critical human rights.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
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.
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Subject El Salvador -- History -- Civil War, 1979-1992.
Refugees -- El Salvador.
Refugees.
El Salvador.
Chronological Term 1979-1992
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Todd, Molly. Beyond displacement. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010 9780299250041 (DLC) 2010011578 (OCoLC)593629230
ISBN 9780299250034 (electronic book)
0299250032 (electronic book)
0299250040 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780299250041 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1282765957
9781282765955
9780299250041