
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
While the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border drew intense condemnation, the practice has been going on in this country for centuries. Historian Laura Briggs argues that it has been part of strategy of counterinsurgency, as during the anti-communist wars in Latin America, in which rebellious populations are terrorized by having their children taken. (Encore presentation.)
Resources:
Laura Briggs, Taking Children: A History of American Terror UC Press, 2021
The post Separating Children as Counterinsurgency appeared first on KPFA.
4.7
194194 ratings
While the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border drew intense condemnation, the practice has been going on in this country for centuries. Historian Laura Briggs argues that it has been part of strategy of counterinsurgency, as during the anti-communist wars in Latin America, in which rebellious populations are terrorized by having their children taken. (Encore presentation.)
Resources:
Laura Briggs, Taking Children: A History of American Terror UC Press, 2021
The post Separating Children as Counterinsurgency appeared first on KPFA.
492 Listeners
5,686 Listeners
493 Listeners
156 Listeners
62 Listeners
54 Listeners
57 Listeners
258 Listeners
51 Listeners
143 Listeners
1,397 Listeners
1,196 Listeners
5 Listeners
48 Listeners
6 Listeners
1,526 Listeners
1,964 Listeners
414 Listeners
6,116 Listeners
420 Listeners
154 Listeners
524 Listeners
260 Listeners
709 Listeners