“Trauma on Trauma on Trauma”: For Refugee Children, the Journey Is Only the Beginning
NOVANEWS
By Candice Bernd,
Truthout
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This story is the third in a new Truthout series, Severed Ties: The Human Toll of Prisons. This series will dive deeply into the impact of incarceration on families, loved ones and communities, demonstrating how the United States' incarceration of more than 2 million people also harms many millions more -- including 2.7 million children.
Adele's* 7-year-old daughter cries often.
She cries at home and at school, whenever she thinks about the gang-perpetrated assassination she and her mother witnessed in their home country of El Salvador, and the death threats that soon followed. She also cries when she remembers the abuse inflicted on her mother by her mother's partner that, combined with the gang violence, ca...