Transnational Ruptures: Gender and Forced Migration

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - Social Science - 246 pages
The author examines how political violence and new refugee spaces in Canada work together to create spaces of social relations which are constituted by a mix of ruptures, connections, yearning to return, denial of the past, new opportunities, concocted life stories, identity renegotiation and recognition.
 

Contents

Gender Community and Transnationalism
31
GUATEMALA TO CANADA STATE VIOLENCE
59
Geographies
83
Gendered Narratives of Rupture
121
Social Spaces and Immobility of Refugee Transnationalism
149
Refugee Transnationalism
181
Glossary of Immigrant Categories and Related Terms
221
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Catherine Nolin is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. She is also affiliated with the Graduate Studies programs in Interdisciplinary Studies & Natural Resources and Environmental Studies. Catherine combines academic and activist concerns related to the 1980s genocide in Guatemala, refugee movement to Canada, and Canadian immigration and refugee policy. Her research and teaching interests are shaped by a commitment to social justice and human rights.

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