{"product_id":"reunion-9780520386143","title":"Reunion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war.     In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration.     Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Science *\u003cbr\u003e\"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable.\" * Jacobin *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author’s Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against\u003cbr\u003e Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank\u003cbr\u003e (Summer 2005)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Arriving\u003cbr\u003e 2. Guarjila with Father Jon\u003cbr\u003e 3. At the Nunnery\u003cbr\u003e 4. Guerrilleras\u003cbr\u003e 5. Morazán\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gunshots\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fathers\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sonia’s Reunion\u003cbr\u003e 10. Carmen’s Reunion\u003cbr\u003e 11. Suchitoto with María Inés\u003cbr\u003e 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion \u003cbr\u003e 13. Meeting Angela \u003cbr\u003e 14. Meeting Pedro \u003cbr\u003e 15. Sandrita and New Separations \u003cbr\u003e 16. La Esperanza\u003cbr\u003e 17. Coming Home \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. Father Jon’s Legacy\u003cbr\u003e 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda \u003cbr\u003e 20. Pedro’s Testimony \u003cbr\u003e 21. El Norte \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion \u003cbr\u003e 23. Return to El Salvador\u003cbr\u003e 24. Angela’s Reunion \u003cbr\u003e 25. Blanca and Ricardo\u003cbr\u003e 26. Remittance\u003cbr\u003e 27. Home to California with Angela\u003cbr\u003e 28. Berkeley Days Between\u003cbr\u003e 29. Angela’s El Salvador\u003cbr\u003e 30. Onward \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a\u003cbr\u003e Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation\u003cbr\u003e (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the\u003cbr\u003e Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and\u003cbr\u003e Philippe Bourgois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Contact Information","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402958840151,"sku":"9780520386143","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520386143.jpg?v=1730481966","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reunion-9780520386143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}