Project 2006/278. EL SALVADOR
Creation of the Migration Fund of the General Archive of the Nation and production of series of oral sources on Salvadoran migration to the United States
The aim of this project was to strengthen the Salvadorean Academy of History‘s Oral Archive of social movements and processes. The project aimed to make oral records on the following themes:
1. Salvadorean migration to the USA and other countries: causes, life circumstances of emigrant social groups, migratory routes, emigrant sectors and the social impact of migration on Salvadorean society.
2. Successful social movements in Salvadoran history: suffragettes, indigenous people, peasants, trade unionists and students, among others.
For this purpose, interviews and testimonies were obtained from more than 165 records on the following themes:
- Salvadorean immigrants in the USA
- People deported from the USA for being illegal immigrants
- Women immigrants to the USA
- Rural-city migration
- Testimonies of the Civil War in El Salvador (1981-1982)
- Indigenous issues
The oral records obtained from this project have been incorporated into the Oral Archive of the Salvadoran Academy of History, at the service of the research community.
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Project 2010/144. EL SALVADOR
Production of 100 oral recordings for the Salvadorean Academy of History’s oral archive of social processes and movements on the themes of migration and the Civil War of the 1980s.
The aim of the project was to produce 100 oral recordings with their respective transcriptions for the Salvadorean Academy of History’s Oral Archive of Social Processes and Movements, to update the Oral Archive’s inventory and to incorporate the media of the new recordings into the Oral Archive: digital recordings, digital transcriptions, paper transcriptions, production of an Oral Archive Guide.
The topics of the interviews were the civil war of the 1980s and Salvadoran migration, especially to the United States. There are records of conferences or round tables of military and FMLN leaders analysing neuralgic parts of the civil war such as the 1989 offensive, the murder of Jesuit priests at the Catholic university in 1989 and the murder of Monsignor Romero.
To find out more about the Salvadorean Academy of History and its funds, visit its website:
You can consult the project’s technical report and the rest of the information here: