Abstract

CARDENAS MENDEZ, ELIANA. TRAUMA AND STIGMATIZED IDENTITIES: FORCED MIGRATIONS DUE TO ARMED CONFLICTS. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.1, pp.157-177. ISSN 1909-3063.

In the line of subjectivities, migration is an event that alters the life of people, for reason of the causes that caused the displacement, the actual journeys and the incorporation in the receiving communities. This process is even clearer in the case of migrations forced by armed conflicts, because it is a way that recognizes violence as the guiding force of the displacement, which not only affects those who lived the experience of armed conflicts, but also the vital diagrams of following generations. This article proposes to study trauma as a key category for the learning about migrations forced by armed conflicts, taking as reference the exodus of the Mayas from the north of Guatemala, during the counter-insurgency struggles in the 80s of the 20th century. Trauma, among all disruptive events, is an inherent sequel to forced migrations in the presence of violence, that reveals itself as a plunder of subjectivity and political disability of individuals and groups.

Keywords : Forced migrations; traumatism; stigmatized identities.

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