Mike Anastario

Parcels

Memories of Salvadoran Migration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In light of new proposals to control undocumented migrants in the United States, Parcels prioritizes rural Salvadoran remembering in an effort to combat the collective amnesia that supports the logic of these historically myopic strategies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780813595221
• ISBN-10: 0813595223
• Artikelnr.: 54031222

Autorenporträt

MIKE ANASTARIO is a sociologist at the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
            Part I   Diasporic Remembering                                 
        
1          Es barata y es cara: couriers and parcels in transnational
space                                          
2          A sequence of undocumented migrant
memories                                                 
3          Diasporic intimacy and nostos
imaginaries                                   
4          We don't have to learn to be what we are not: Memory and
imagination in the rural diaspora                    
                                              
            Part II  The US Fugue State
5          Silence and systematic
forgetting                                                                              
           
6          Fields of
violence                                                                   
      
7          Deferments of voice, myopic reflections                   
Conclusion                                                            
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography                                                                                                              
    
Index