Beyond Displacement : Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A People without History -- 1. Remapping the Tierra Olvidada -- 2. Organizing Flight: The Guinda System -- 3. Internationalizing La Guinda -- 4. The Politics of Exile -- 5. Salvadorans to the Soul: Citizen Refugees and La Lucha -- 6. (Re)Writing National History from Exile -- 7. ¡Retorno! The Grassroots Repopulation Movement -- Conclusion: Campesinos, Collective Organization, and Social Change -- Notes -- References -- Index.

During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome bodily mutilations. Even as human rights violations drew world attention, repression and war displaced more than a quarter of El Salvador's population, both inside the country and beyond its borders. Beyond Displacement examines how the peasant campesinos of war-torn northern El Salvador responded to violence by taking to the hills. Molly Todd demonstrates that their flight was not hasty and chaotic, but was a deliberate strategy that grew out of a longer history of collective organization, mobilization, and self-defense.

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