Ellen Moodie

Ellen Moodie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy (2010). Her current research explores the political dilemmas of the post-postwar generation in El Salvador.

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Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from Central America

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Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from Central America

(Con traducción al español)Central America is again in the news as a region in crisis. In October 2018, a group of migrants gathered in a bus station in San Ped... More

Introduction: Behind the Migrant Caravan

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Introduction: Behind the Migrant Caravan

(Con traducción al español) Our answers are to be short. In November 2018, an immigration judge reprimanded one of us for taking too long to explain why the pol... More