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Forest Fire Risk Prediction (Hardcover): Rachael Nolan, V?ctor Resco de Dios Forest Fire Risk Prediction (Hardcover)
Rachael Nolan, Vıctor Resco de Dios
R1,415 R1,237 Discovery Miles 12 370 Save R178 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Until I Find You - Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala: Rachel Nolan Until I Find You - Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Rachel Nolan
R797 R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Save R96 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption—but in 1984 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat’s mother at all, but a jaladora—a baby broker. Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala’s civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army’s genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war’s second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. Private adoptions skyrocketed to the point where tiny Guatemala overtook giants like China and Russia as a “sender” state. Drawing on government archives, oral histories, and a rare cache of adoption files opened briefly for war crimes investigations, Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of an international industry that thrives on exploitation. Would-be parents in rich countries have fostered a commercial market for children from poor countries, with Guatemala becoming the most extreme case. Until I Find You reckons with the hard truths of a practice that builds loving families in the Global North out of economic exploitation, endemic violence, and dislocation in the Global South.

Tilde (Paperback): Adam McOmber, Brendan Walsh, Rachel Nolan Tilde (Paperback)
Adam McOmber, Brendan Walsh, Rachel Nolan
R222 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R16 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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