Salvadoran intergenerational trauma
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Our contributing members include nationals of El Salvador, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, England, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Poland, Venezuela, and the United States.
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Using decolonial and participatory methodologies, our goal is to engage in high-impact, community-driven research projects, oral histories, and accessible knowledge sharing activities that approach historical memory work holistically through the intersections of justice art, music, and theatre intergenerational education documentation and testimonies mental health and healing commemoration environmental reparation and local economic reconstruction. The Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador collaborative research initiative is an international partnership of survivors, scholars, artists, lawyers, museums, architects, community organizers, municipal governments, civil society organizations and mental health professionals who are committed to documenting the history of the Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) and preventing future violence. society.About Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador The Salvadoran case shows youth actively engage with necronarratives as they come of age to adulthood to yield lessons about how their national origins and ethnic heritages shape their senses of belonging and exclusion within U.S. and to avoid traumatizing their children, this study on second-generation Salvadoran adults describes the ethnic roots information families do share through war stories. Contrary to past indications that Central American migrants live in silence about their national origins in order to avoid discrimination in the U.S. Salvadorans construct narratives out of their family’s war memories in order to locate affirming qualities of the Salvadoran experience such as surviving a war, achieving migration, and building a life in a new country. Drawing from 20 semi-structured interviews with U.S. Although scholars have noted that high levels of war-related trauma among Salvadoran immigrants cause them to remain silent about those experiences, my research reveals that children of these immigrants collect and construct narratives using the memory fragments shared during casual conversations with their relatives. Necropolitics refers to the ability of the state to legislate and draw policies that determine who lives and who dies. Youth interpret inherited memories through a lens of survival, resilience, and healing. Thus, immigrant parents’ casual discussions about their experiences during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992) become what this article calls necronarratives: stories pieced together from memories based on foiling death and violence generated through state necropolitics. Second-generation Salvadorans interpret their relatives’ stories of war, death, and violence through a lens that prioritizes lessons gained over traumatization. As the children of wartime immigrants from El Salvador become adults, they must grapple with the role violence played-and continues to play-in Salvadoran society.