Journeys of Fear: Refugee Return and National Transformation in GuatemalaLiisa North, Alan Burtham Simmons Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early 1980s, in government negotiations regarding the conditions for return. The essays adopt the refugees' language concerning return - defining it as a self-organized and participatory collective act that is very different from repatriation, a passive process often organized by others with the objective of reintegration into the status quo. Contributors examine the extent to which the organized returnees and other social organizations with similar objectives have been successful in transforming Guatemalan society, creating greater respect for political, social, and economic rights. They also consider the obstacles to democratization in a country just emerging from a history of oppressive dictatorships and a thirty-six-year-long civil war. Contributors include Stephen Baranyi (IDRC), Catherine Blacklock (Queen's University), Manuel-Angel Castillo (Colegio de Mexico), Alison Crosby (Consejeria en Proyectos), Gonzalo de Villa (Universidad Rafael Landivar), Brian Egan (Independent Consultant), Marco Fonseca (York University), Gisela Geliert (FLACSO-Guatemala), Jim Gronau (Coordinación de ONG y Cooperativas), Barry Levitt (University of North Carolina), George Lovell (Queen's University), Catherine Nolan-Hanlon (Queen-s University), Liisa North, Viviana Patroni (Wilfrid Laurier University), René Potvin (FLACSO-Guatemala), Alan Simmons, and Gabriela Torres (York University). |
Contents
Return and Transformation | 3 |
Reflections on the Problems of Democracy | 31 |
Two Points of View | 40 |
PART TWO NEGOTIATING AND MONITORING | 55 |
Maximizing the Benefits of UN Involvement in | 74 |
Land and the Guatemalan | 95 |
Migration and the Displaced in Guatemala City in | 112 |
Exodus and Return with a Changing Migration System | 123 |
To Whom Shall the Nation Belong? The Gender | 176 |
Democratization and Popular Womens Organizations | 196 |
Place and Maya | 213 |
Theorizing Accompaniment | 237 |
Canadian Foreign Aid as Support for Human Rights | 255 |
Refugee Return National | 272 |
Acronyms | 301 |
Contributors | 333 |
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Work and Migration: Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World Karen Fog Olwig,Ninna Nyberg Sorensen No preview available - 2004 |