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Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced Lives
Bridget Hayden
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Description for Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced Lives
Hardcover. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; 1KLCS; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
During the political and economic upheaval that swept El Salvador in the 1980s, as many as 20,000 Salvadorans took refuge in Costa Rica. Despite similarities between the countries, most Salvadorans experienced El Salvador and Costa Rica as very different places; yet some 6,000 chose to remain after the violence in their country ended, re-establishing their lives successfully enough that they claimed that they now "felt Costa Rican." Bridget Hayden examines the ways in which these people integrated into Costa Rican society and the ambiguous sense of identity they developed, exploring their experience of the process and the cultural concepts they ... Read more
During the political and economic upheaval that swept El Salvador in the 1980s, as many as 20,000 Salvadorans took refuge in Costa Rica. Despite similarities between the countries, most Salvadorans experienced El Salvador and Costa Rica as very different places; yet some 6,000 chose to remain after the violence in their country ended, re-establishing their lives successfully enough that they claimed that they now "felt Costa Rican." Bridget Hayden examines the ways in which these people integrated into Costa Rican society and the ambiguous sense of identity they developed, exploring their experience of the process and the cultural concepts they ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
179
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816522941
SKU
V9780816522941
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