Download or read book This Promised Land El Salvador written by Beth Cagan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago thousands of men, women, and children from El Salvador fled to Honduras to escape government repression and violence. They gathered together into a refugee camp, Colomoncagua. What began as a disorganized collection of individuals would develop into a near-utopian community of 8,400 people. The refugees arrived as illiterate and frightened peasants with little experience with democratic institutions; within a few years they transformed the camp into an economically active, democratic, and participatory society. Steve and Beth Cagan tell the story of the refugees' harrowing flight, their determination to make a better life for themselves, and their brave decision to return to El Salvador. We learn of the refugees' successful efforts at developing education, occupational training, improved nutrition, health care, gender equality, and participatory democracyÐÐdespite extreme poverty and confinement and repression from the Honduran government. But even as they were creating a new life for themselves, the refugees were longing for their homeland, El Salvador. After long and complex negotiations with the governments of Honduras and El Salvador, the refugees repatriated, literally picking up their community and crossing over the border. There, in early 1990, they established a new city named for one of the slain Jesuit priests, Dr. Segundo Montes, where they hope to maintain their communitarian style of work and organization. This compelling story is illustrated with over one hundred superb photographs of the refugees and their community. The pictures and text work together, inspiring us to believe that people can sustain hope and can work to improve the conditions of their lives even in the worst circumstances.
Download or read book Salvadoran Refugee Camps In Honduras 1988 written by Laurence Binet and published by Médecins Sans Frontières. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salvadoran Refugee Women at Colomoncagua Honduras written by Barbara Zerter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this thesis maintains that the mass media portray refugees as waiting hopelessly and helplessly in camps for aid and claims that these images provoke a feeling of impotence and despair in the public. In the early 1980's, thousands of Salvadoran peasants fled to neighbouring Honduras to escape the Salvadoran Government's 'scorched earth' policy. The majority were women, children or elderly; all were poor and uneducated and most were unskilled. The Honduran Government suspected them of being supporters of the FMLN, the Salvadoran armed opposition. However, it did not repatriate them by force, but instead made entry into Honduras difficult for them. Refugees were placed in three camps, Mesa Grande, Colomoncagua, and San Antonio, under the protection of the UNHCR, which was also responsible for assuring assistance. This was actually provided by five non-governmental humanitarian agencies. The author considers these refugees to be of interest since they were able to change their situation from one of basic survival to a developmental experience by learning new skills and constructing a new social model based on a collective and cooperative life style. Women particularly found their role and self-image profoundly changed. The refugees hope to contribute their new skills to their country's reconstruction and to the creation of a more just society on their return to El Salvador. The author examines the experiences of the refugees in Colomoncagua, the reasons for their flight, their arrival in Honduras, the construction of the camp, the development of work areas and the refugees' values, philosophy and social structures. She also considers the socio-political factors promoting this experiment, believing that the Colomoncagua camp can provide valuable lessons for future refugee work and a more positive and constructive image of refugee experience than is usually propagated.
Download or read book Salvadoran Refugee Women at Colomoncagua Honduras microform from Survival to Development written by Barbara Zerter and published by Montréal : Service des archives, Université de Montréal, Section Microfilm. This book was released on 1992 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this thesis maintains that the mass media portray refugees as waiting hopelessly and helplessly in camps for aid and claims that these images provoke a feeling of impotence and despair in the public. In the early 1980's, thousands of Salvadoran peasants fled to neighbouring Honduras to escape the Salvadoran Government's 'scorched earth' policy. The majority were women, children or elderly; all were poor and uneducated and most were unskilled. The Honduran Government suspected them of being supporters of the FMLN, the Salvadoran armed opposition. However, it did not repatriate them by force, but instead made entry into Honduras difficult for them. Refugees were placed in three camps, Mesa Grande, Colomoncagua, and San Antonio, under the protection of the UNHCR, which was also responsible for assuring assistance. This was actually provided by five non-governmental humanitarian agencies. The author considers these refugees to be of interest since they were able to change their situation from one of basic survival to a developmental experience by learning new skills and constructing a new social model based on a collective and cooperative life style. Women particularly found their role and self-image profoundly changed. The refugees hope to contribute their new skills to their country's reconstruction and to the creation of a more just society on their return to El Salvador. The author examines the experiences of the refugees in Colomoncagua, the reasons for their flight, their arrival in Honduras, the construction of the camp, the development of work areas and the refugees' values, philosophy and social structures. She also considers the socio-political factors promoting this experiment, believing that the Colomoncagua camp can provide valuable lessons for future refugee work and a more positive and constructive image of refugee experience than is usually propagated.
Download or read book Forced to Move written by Renato Camarda and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this document is to present the case of the Salvadorian peasant refugees in Honduras, and to transmit their appeal to the international community for help in preventing their forced transfer deep into Honduras, far from the border with El Salvador. There are approximately 19,000 Salvadorian refugees in Honduras, almost all living in camps run by UNHCR. The civil struggle in El Salvador has caused tens of thousands of peasants to seek refuge in Honduras, and these Salvadorian refugees are now an element in the geopolitical struggles in Central America. The first camps were located on the border and were well run by committed relief workers. But the Honduran Government announced in October 1981 that the refugees must be moved to a location inland. The stated justification for this was greater security for the refugees and enhanced control of them by the Honduran military. The move inland was opposed by the refugees and by most of the relief agencies involved: it took until April 1982 to complete the relocation. While 8,000 refugees were forcibly moved, 7,000 chose to return to El Salvador. The real reason for the relocation then became clear - the border area was to be militarized. No camp infrastructure was in place inland; promises of adequate land for agriculture, good water and opportunity for self-sufficiency were not realized. In 1983 there came new pressure to move the refugees again, further inland. This plan was delayed during 1984, when it seemed that officials may be considering forced repatriation to El Salvador for the refugees. The document was published early in 1985, and it calls for international action on behalf of these refugees.
Download or read book Honduras a Crisis on the Border written by Iain Guest and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Rights in Honduras written by Anne Manuel and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central America written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of the Ashes written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet reproduces and describes some of the work and creativity of refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala. In the first part of the book, refugees tell why they were forced to leave their homes. The situation in El Salvador and Guatemala is then described, together with the number of refugees who have fled these countries and the reception they receive in the countries of asylum. The second part of the publication contains a series of personal reflections on life in the refugee communities. Refugees flee their homes with nothing, leaving most of their possessions behind. Once they cross the border, they settle in refugee camps, in shanty towns in urban areas, some are resettled in farming cooperatives, others try to find sanctuary in the United States. The experiences of refugees in all of these situations are recounted. Wherever they find asylum, the displaced persons and refugees begin to organize themselves and create new communities and it is this aspect that is next covered. The first priority is to organize food distribution and a hygienic sanitation system. Refugee Coordination Committees are established, new huts built for community centres, health and nutrition clinics, a church, etc. In order to become self-sufficient, crops are planted, workshops are set up for producing handicrafts. Providing facilities for education and skills training is also a major priority. Most of the refugees live with the hope of one day returning to their homes and the refugees express these feelings in the final part of the publication. Suggestions are also given on how the reader can help refugees from Central America.
Download or read book Situation in Colomoncagua and San Antonio Camps May 10 1988 written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugee Problems in Central America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honduras on the Brink written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central American Refugees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sumus in Nicaragua and Honduras written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Mountains of Morazan written by Mandy Macdonald and published by Latin America Bureau (Lab). This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Mountains of Morazán is the extraordinary story of Segundo Montes, told by the community's men and women, and interspersed with vivid descriptions of daily life in this remote corner of El Salvador.
Download or read book Salvadorans by Flight written by Molly Todd and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Backgrounder written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
