Words on Returning: Narratives on Displacement and Returning in Indigenous Communities in Colombia

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Notes

1 Project participants came from the following areas: a priori residents of the Nusido in Frontino, Cristiania in Jardin and Jaikerazabi in Mutata reservations and current residents of Antioquia; a participant came from Putumayo, another attended who was from the Sibundoy Valley; from the Choco area, residents from the reservations of La Cristalina in Carmen de Atrato, Tokolloro in Lloro, Salaqui-Pavarando in Riosucio, El noventa in Quibdo and Tahami in Alto Andagueda, from Bagado and Alto Baudo also attended.

2 For further information on these municipalities, territorial authorities, and their characteristics, see in particular: https://www.datos.gov.co/Mapas-Nacionales/Departamentos-y-municipios-de-Colombia/xdk5-pm3f

3 At the time of writing, the results of the 2018 National Census have not yet been published.

4 For more information see Colombian Constitutional Court (Judgment C-781, 2012). Available at: http://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/RELATORIA/2012/C-781-12.htm [Accessed 26 November 2019].

5 Authors such as Fredrik Barth (1998) and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman (1995) use these notions as socially articulated, non-rigid and objective concepts.

6 Districts such as Niquitao have accommodated the displaced population arriving in Medellin; these districts become places where, as in Bogota for instance, ‘discrimination does not exist […] places fighting to establish their territoriality in areas of prostitution, drug dealing and street sleepers.’ (Via Plural, 2009, p. 33).

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Sara Catalina Garcia Jaramillo

Sara Catalina Garcia Jaramillo is a historian and holds an MA in Peacebuilding from the University of Los Andes. She is a researcher for the Memorias Vivas (Living Memories) research group belonging to the Office for the Creation and Dissemination of Content for the Museo de la Casa Memoria (House of Memory Museum).

Daniela Maria Garcia Cano

Daniela Maria Garcia Cano is an anthropologist at the University of Antioquia. She holds an MA in Contemporary Cultural Studies from the Federal pi University of Mato Grosso and is a researcher for the Memorias Vivas (Living Memories) research group, which belongs to the (Office for the Creation and Dissemination of Content) for the Museo de la Casa Memoria (House of Memory Museum).

Veronica Cadavid Gonzalez

Veronica Cadavid Gonzalez is a lawyer at the Pontifical Bolivarian University. She is a researcher for the Memorias Vivas (Living Memories) research group from the Office for the Creation and Dissemination of Content for the Museo de la Casa Memoria (House of Memory Museum).