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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. The author's voice is used in the text to place the women in their historical and cultural context. The daily lives and the testimonios of the refugees serve as an eloquent expression of the multidimensional feminism that has developed in Latin America. In contrast to mainstream feminism in the United States that focuses primarily on the power relationships between men and women, the concern of Latin American feminism is with power asymmetries in socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and religion, as well as gender. The women, whose daycare center is supported by international funding, rely on their cultural traditions to survive in the face of tragedy and oppression.
This study was begun with the intent of examining the social, economic, and ideological changes that have occurred in the lives of the women employed in PINDECO's packing house in Buenos Aires. It was assumed that the majority of the women were from rural regions and that this was their first regular, salaried employment. Both of these hypotheses were disproved to some degree: in this sample, more women had emigrated to Buenos Aires from areas at least as urban as Buenos Aires itself; the majority of the women had also previously held jobs, though not as well-paying or as steady as their current jobs with PINDECO. This is related to their socio-economic situations--many of the women workers are single mothers, and so have a high degree of financial need. The study developed, therefore, into an examination of the existing socio-economic situations of the women workers and the factors influencing their financial and familial lives.
This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils. Richly illustrated, it provides information on the unique characteristics and distribution of these soils. Due to the influence of the Andes, which vastly modified the climate and parental materials, a relative small country like Ecuador has a wide variety of soil orders, rarely found in other countries. The country is divided into three distinctive regions by the Andes: The Coastal Plain, the Andean Highlands, and the Amazonia Region each with different soil development, influenced by the varying conditions in that region. It is also necessary to consider the Galapagos Islands as a separate region with a particular climate and parental material.