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Exiled Home: Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence (Global Insecurities)

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In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to america all over the 1980–1992 civil war. As a result of their youth and the violence they left at the back of, in addition to their uncertain legal status in america, many grew up with distant memories of El Salvador and a profound sense of disjuncture in their adopted homeland. Through interviews in both countries, Coutin examines how they sought to remember and overcome the trauma of war and displacement through such strategies as recording community histories, advocating for undocumented immigrants, forging new relationships with the Salvadoran state, and, for those deported from america, reconstructing their lives in El Salvador. In specializing in the case of Salvadoran youth, Coutin’s nuanced analysis shows how the violence associated with migration will also be countered through practices that get well historical memory whilst also reclaiming national membership.
 

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