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Imagine if you will a mist settling on the lush jungle floor and wise, old Mother Earth rumbles and tumbles and the land cracks and rolls and she painfully groans as her children once again wage war amongst themselves. An ensuing exodus from Central America has happened again.
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Levy, M.LS. (2016). Introduction. In: Levy, M.LS. (eds) Children from the Other America. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 114. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-447-3_1
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