forced displacement

Condemned to Banishment? Crossings and Confinements Among Black Communities in Colombian Pacific

Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene, Harvard University, USA

Realities and Falacies in Social Fabric Reconstruction among Displaced People

Uva Falla Ramírez y Yuri A. Chávez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

Social Networks and Social Inclusion. The Interest of a Relational Approach in Social Work Research

Uva Falla y Yuri Chávez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

Public Politics for Attention to the Displaced Population in Colombia: Emergency, Constitution and Crisis in a Field of Discursive Practices.

Jefferson Jaramillo Marín jefferson.jaramillo@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) Abstract: In this article the author offers a critical approach to the logics and practices behind the production and reproduction of the Colombian policy for the attention to the displaced population (1997-2007). That policy is conceived as a discursive field, in which it is possible to identify […]

Between spoil and banishment: social representations of territory among a displaced population settled in the county of Soacha, Cundinamarca

Yuri Chávez Plazas yachavez@unicolmayor.edu.co Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Yuri Romero Picón yuri.romero@uan.edu.co Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia Abstract: This paper follows the theoretical-methodological guidelines for the study of social representations of territory. It aims to report findings from an ongoing research whose goal is understanding which social representations are guiding practices and interactions among […]

Female headships: an overview to feminisation of poverty and responsibility among families displaced by violence

Yuri Romero-Picón romeroy@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Yuri Chávez-Plazas yachavez@unicolmayor.edu.co Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Abstract: The authors explore the issue of female headships in a group of women who were displaced by violence and came to live in distressed neighborhoods in Soacha municipality, Colombia. There, challenges like low schooling, underpaid jobs, affective issues, and […]

Presentism vs. historicity in Afrocolombian social revindication: Analysing the use of collective memory by Asociación de Afrocolombianos Desplazados —Afrodes—

Gina Catherine León Cabrera gina.leon@gmail.com Museo Nacional de Colombia – ICANH Curaduría Antropología e Etnografía, Colombia Abstract: From a constructivist approach to collective action, this paper addresses the political use of collective memory the Asociación de Afrocolombianos Desplazados —Afrodes—, in order to identify continuances, shifts and changes in the historical process of mobilization by the organization’s […]