Exiled Home

Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence

Bibliographic Data

ID19944758
AuthorsB Coutin (0000-0003-1065-2769, corresponding author), Susan Bibler Coutin
Year2020
Pages270
Publication date2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueExiled home (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780822374176
WikidataQ57234080
OpenAlexW2490368941
Open LibraryOL26500649M
ISBN9780822374176
LanguageEN
Citations received21

In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980-1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, 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 understand 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 the United States, reconstructing their lives in El Salvador. In focusing on the case of Salvadoran youth, Coutin's nuanced analysis shows how the violence associated with migration can be countered through practices that recuperate historical memory while also reclaiming national membership

Criminology · Homeland · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · El salvador · emigration and immigration · Hispanic americans · Legal status, laws · Refugees · Salvadoran Americans · Salvadorans · Social conditions · Unaccompanied immigrant children · united states

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