Forced Displacement among Rural Women in Colombia

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ID4500324
AuthorsFlor Edilma Osorio Pérez (0000-0001-7844-403X, Pontifical Xaverian University in Bogotá, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue6
Pages29-40
Publication date2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x08326021
OpenAlexW2081990441
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Women are the main survivors in the Colombian conflict. Even in the most adverse circumstances they play a crucial role in their families' vital material and symbolic reconstruction. They are burdened with the pain of their losses, fear, family rupture, and righteous anger at seeing their bodies transformed into military targets. They reconstruct territories and identity referents while building multiple forms of resistance in the midst of sudden impoverishment and social exclusion. They take leading roles in their daily domestic and public spaces as they garner social recognition and self-esteem even while living at the limits of pain and uncertainty. As their memories interweave different times and places, pains and pleasures, these women rediscover their social networks and capabilities, the most important of which is the chance to provide a better life for their children

Aesthetics · Anger · Armed conflict · Displacement (psychology) · Forced migration · Identity (music) · Political science · Psychotherapist · Refugee · Resistance (ecology) · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Gender Studies · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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