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	Podcast:		Let's Grab Coffee
	Episode:		S1E96 - Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador with Dr. Elizabeth Barnert
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		00:55:22
	Publish Date:		2023-03-20 18:28:31
	Description:		Episode Notes According to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, everyone has the right to identity, the right to know one’s history and origins. Everyone, including children adopted transnationally out of a war. But how can these adoptees begin to know their history and origins, if their nations of origin deny their existence? On today’s show, I’m joined by Dr. Elizabeth Barnert, the author of Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador. In this book, she provides a firsthand account that reveals the impact of forced family separations and reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador’s civil war. We discuss her work with Pro-Búsqueda, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the search of children who were disappeared during the Salvadoran Civil War, and the importance of adoptees’ own agency in the process of reunion. Elizabeth Barnert is a pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research, grounded in human rights and social action, examines children affected by violence, family separation, and incarceration.
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S1E96 - Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador with Dr. Elizabeth Barnert