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Platform for Peace: A Case Study of Gang Violence in El Salvador and the Tenuous Truce by Kelly Miller
April 26, 2014
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In this clip Prof. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda describes the prevalence of remittances and how nations on both ends of the exchange are dependent on a system whereby migrants ship money home.
Prof. Hinojosa-Ojeda is from of the Department of Chicana [...]and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. This clip is taken from an event titled, “Remittances and Development in Post-Conflict States,†co-sponsored by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Center for Finance, Law & Policy on November 9, 2012.
The entire is available here: http://www.bu.edu/pardee/multimedia-library/remittances-hinojosa-ojeda/
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In this chapter of Lost and Found, Eleonora Valdéz from El Salvador shares with us her journey. Being used to small groups of people back home, she found difficulties when looking for friends, after trying to join the volleyball team (a sport she [...]used to play back home at a semi-professional level) hanging out with compatriots, she encounters an invitation to join a sorority at BU.
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