Nations of Emigrants : : Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States / / Susan Bibler Coutin.

The violence and economic devastation of the 1980-1992 civil war in El Salvador drove as many as one million Salvadorans to enter the United States, frequently without authorization. In Nations of Emigrants, the legal anthropologist Susan Bibler Coutin analyzes the case of emigration from El Salvado...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 table, 1 map, 6 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue. "Ni de aquf, ni de alia" by Ana E. Miranda Maldonado
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Los Retornados (Returnees)
  • CHAPTER 2. La Ley NACARA (Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act)
  • CHAPTER 3. Atenci6n a Ia Comunidad en el Exterior (Attention to Salvadorans Living Abroad)
  • CHAPTER 4. En el Camino (En Route)
  • CHAPTER 5. Las Remesas (Remittances)
  • CHAPTER 6. Productos de la Guerra (Products of War)
  • CHAPTER 7. ¡Sí, se puede! (Yes, it can be done!)
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue. "Frutos de Ia Guerra" by Marvin Novoa Escobar (AKA Bullet)
  • References
  • Notes
  • Index