Wilson’s Testimony: Abuse of Authority

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Disappeared

Wilson (pseudonym) recounts the story of the disappearance and struggle to find his partner’s son. He shows the everyday forms of abuse by state authorities of suspected gang members and their families that can end in disappearance. He also explains the efforts family members take to try to find their disappeared relatives and the constraints they face in doing so. These barriers are imposed by state authorities and gangs. Against these odds, Wilson expresses how hope, solidarity with other relatives of the disappeared, and organisations of victims keep families motivated in their struggle.

scholarly journals How We Heal: Genealogical Narratives of Healing among San Lázaro Devotees

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Elaine Penagos
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cuban Americans ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
Healing Narratives

Healing is the basis of belief in San Lázaro, a popular saint among Cubans, Cuban-Americans, and other Latinx peoples. Stories about healing, received through faith in San Lázaro, are typically passed on through family members, rendering them genealogical narratives of healing. In this photo essay, the author draws on her maternal grandmother’s devotion to San Lázaro and explores how other devotees of this saint create genealogical narratives of healing that are passed down from generation to generation. These genealogical narratives of healing function as testaments to the efficaciousness of San Lázaro’s healing abilities and act as familial avenues through which younger generations inherit belief in the saint. Using interview excerpts and ethnographic observations conducted at Rincón de San Lázaro church in Hialeah, Florida, the author locates registers of lo cotidiano, the everyday practices of the mundane required for daily functions and survival, and employs arts-based methods such as photography, narrative inquiry, and thematic poetic coding to show how the stories that believers tell about San Lázaro, and their experiences of healing through faith in the saint, constitute both genealogical narratives of healing and genealogical healing narratives where testimonies become a type of narrative medicine.

Unconfirmed death as a predictor of psychological morbidity in family members of disappeared persons

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (16) ◽  
pp. 2764-2771
Author(s):  
Amila Isuru ◽  
S. N. Hewage ◽  
Padmakumara Bandumithra ◽  
S. S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Psychological Morbidity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Loved One ◽  
2004 Tsunami ◽  
The Disappeared

AbstractBackgroundThe 2004 tsunami, the civil conflict until 2009 and the youth insurrection in the late 1980s in Sri Lanka resulted in many persons being classified as ‘missing’ as they disappeared and were unaccounted for. Our aim was to compare the prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) and prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in families of disappeared individuals, who eventually received the mortal remains and those who did not.MethodAn ethically approved cross sectional study was conducted in a purposively selected sample after informed consent. Information on the circumstances of the family member going missing was gathered. Culturally adapted versions of the General Health Questionnaire and the Beck Depression Scale were administered. Those who screened positive were assessed by a psychiatrist on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 criteria to arrive at a diagnosis.ResultsOf 391 cases of disappearances studied, MDD (17.5% v. 6%) and PGD (22% v. 7%) were significantly higher in those who did not eventually receive the mortal remains of the disappeared person. Among those who did not receive the mortal remains, being unsure whether the disappeared person was dead or alive was highly predictive of MDD and PGD. Mothers and wives, older family members and those with a family history of mental illness were more vulnerable.ConclusionsFamily members of missing individuals unsure whether their loved one was alive or dead have higher psychological morbidity in the form of MDD and PGD.

scholarly journals BEHAVIORAL PROHIBITIONS IN FUNERAL AND MEMORIAL RITES OF THE CHUVASH

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-170
Author(s):  
Igor G. Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Other World ◽  
The One ◽  
Ritual Behavior

On the basis of literary, archival, folklore sources and expedition materials, the article examines such a little-studied genre of Chuvash folklore as prohibitions (taboos). Special attention is paid to the systematization and analysis of behavioral prohibitions that have long existed and continue to exist in the funeral rites of the Chuvash. By behavioral prohibitions, the author means a set of well-established and generally accepted prescriptions and rules that regulated the everyday and ritual behavior of an individual and a collective within the framework of a funeral and memorial rite – family members, relatives, as well as other members of a rural community. Their observance was due to the fear of the society members before the deceased and death, the desire to appease the deceased and secure his protection, as well as the desire to protect themselves from the deceased and ensure his safe transition to the other world. By adhering to the prohibitions, people ensured their own safety and well-being, and in general secured the protection of the deceased as a representative of the ancestral world. Despite the superstitious nature of most of the prohibitions, they still exist nowadays. On the one hand, this indicates the antiquity of their origin, on the other – their stability in time and space.

scholarly journals My Child’s Journey Home: Perspectives of Adult Family Members on the Separation and Reunification of the “Disappeared” Children of El Salvador

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barnert ◽  
Nathalie Lopez ◽  
Philippe Bourgois ◽  
Gery Ryan ◽  
Paul J. Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Disappeared

scholarly journals “All I want is to know”: Testimonies of the families of missing migrants in Zimbabwe

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (904) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
On The Road

Every day, people all over the world leave their homes in search of a better life. On the road, many go missing. The mandate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence includes, in certain contexts, protection of vulnerable migrants. The ICRC missing migrants pilot project aims to locate or clarify the fate of Zimbabwean migrants who went missing in South Africa, on behalf of their families. The ICRC aims to work with South African and Zimbabwean authorities to support and enhance existing systems, tools and resources used for locating missing relatives, living or dead. Additionally, the ICRC carries out and supports the activities of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the region to restore contact between and where possible reunify family members, in particular children, who have been separated by conflict, migration, displacement or natural or man-made disasters.The Review has chosen to open this issue with the stories of family members of missing migrants in Zimbabwe. The section aims to show the everyday struggle, sometimes lasting for many years, of those that live with continuous uncertainty regarding the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones. As a result of the disappearances associated with migration, families searching for missing relatives often face a range of needs and challenges. These persons chose to share their life stories with the Review, allowing our readers to understand the intricate balance of uncertainty, hope and the “need to know” that family members of missing migrants live with every day. The testimonies were given to the ICRC in Zimbabwe in November 2017. In order to protect the families, their names have been omitted.

The Disappeared Are Appearing: Murals that Recover Communal Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Claudia Bernardi
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
State Terror ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Communal Memory ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Disappeared

ABSTRACT∞ Relatives of the disappeared during the last civic–military dictatorship in Argentina who were able to recover the human remains of their family members through the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, or EAAF), painted a mural in March 2014. ‘The Disappeared Are Appearing’ is a collaborative and community-based mural project designed, rendered and completed by the relatives of victims of state terror in Argentina. The participating family members of the disappeared had recovered the human remains of their beloved relatives through the tenacious and constant work of the EAAF, a nongovernmental, not-for-profit, scientific organization. It was established in 1984 to investigate the cases of at least 9,000 disappeared people in Argentina under the military government that ruled from 1976 to 1983.

scholarly journals Validation of the Comfort scale for relatives of people in critical states of health

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kátia Santana Freitas ◽  
Igor Gomes Menezes ◽  
Fernanda Carneiro Mussi
Keyword(s):  
Critical State ◽  
Family Members ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Methodological Study ◽  
Total Correlation ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Valid Instrument ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Support Family

AbstractObjective: this methodological study aims to present the construct validity of the Comfort scale for family members of people in a critical state of health (ECONF).Method:this is a methodological study. The sample was made up of 274 family members of adults receiving inpatient treatment in six Intensive Care Units (ICU) in the State of Bahía responded to 62 items distributed in 7 dimensions. The validation procedures adopted were based on the techniques of the Classical Test Theory.Results: the analysis of dimensionality was undertaken through principal components analysis, a scale being obtained with 55 items distributed in four factors: Safety, Support, Family member-relative interaction and Integration with oneself and the everyday. The analysis of the items' , discriminative power, undertaken by the item-total correlation-coefficient showed a good relationship of the items with their respective factors. From the ECONF's reliability test, from the analysis of internal consistency, a raised Alpha Cronbach coefficient was obtained for the 4 factors and the general measurement.Conclusion:the comfort scale presented satisfactory psychometric parameters, thus constituting the first valid instrument for evaluating the comfort of family members of people in a critical state of health. The advance made by the study lies in its theoretical framework on comfort, and provides the health team with a scale based on empirical evidence.

My Promise to Look for You

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Lulú Herrera ◽  
Paula Cuellar Cuellar
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
The Disappeared

Lulú Herrera tells her story of the search for her disappeared husband, eight-year-old son, and two brothers-in-law. In the process, Herrera discovered others searching for the disappeared and with them she became a founding member of the organisation Forces United for Our Disappeared in Coahuila, Mexico. She realised how invisible these disappearances are even when the numbers are so high. Indeed, they were unknown to her before her own life was transformed by disappearance. She was forced to become a different person to be able to carry out the search. A search that continues for her family members and those of others in Coahuila.

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