My Turn to Weep: Salvadoran Refugee Women in Costa Rica

by Robin Ormes Quizar

Salvadoran refugee women tell their stories of escape from El Salvador during some of the worst years of civil unrest (1979-1981) and their subsequent adaptation to refugee life in Costa Rica. These stories--called testimonios--are interwoven against the backdrop of their children's daycare center. The women's complex relationships with one another and the ambiguous nature of their interactions with the author as ethnographer are examined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895401
• ISBN13: 9780897895408
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"