Transnational Ruptures: Gender and Forced MigrationThe 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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