Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador (Paperback)

Contents

Author’s Note

Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against
Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois

Introduction

Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank
(Summer 2005)

1. Arriving
2. Guarjila with Father Jon
3. At the Nunnery
4. Guerrilleras
5. Morazán
6. Gunshots
7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio
8. Fathers
9. Sonia’s Reunion
10. Carmen’s Reunion
11. Suchitoto with María Inés
12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 
13. Meeting Angela 
14. Meeting Pedro 
15. Sandrita and New Separations 
16. La Esperanza
17. Coming Home 

Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006)

18. Father Jon’s Legacy
19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 
20. Pedro’s Testimony 
21. El Norte 

Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020)

22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 
23. Return to El Salvador
24. Angela’s Reunion 
25. Blanca and Ricardo
26. Remittance
27. Home to California with Angela
28. Berkeley Days Between
29. Angela’s El Salvador
30. Onward 

Afterword 

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a
Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation
(November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois 

Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the
Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and
Philippe Bourgois

Notes
Index 
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