History ETDs

Publication Date

Spring 4-15-2018

Abstract

Mara Salvatrucha is a street gang that developed organizationally in California's prisons in the 1980s and was exported to El Salvador beginning in 1992. Convicted felons were deported to their native El Salvador just as the Peace Accords brought an end to the twelve-year civil war. Most of these convicted felons had come to California as children during the civil war, and many had been present for the seminal gang truce in Los Angeles in 1992 and 1993. Some of those same gang members were also present during the gang truce negotiated in El Salvador in 2012. The latter truce was less successful because of the different historical circumstances.

Level of Degree

Masters

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Dr. Kimberly Gauderman

Second Committee Member

Dr. Larry Durwood Ball

Third Committee Member

Dr. Barbara Reyes

Language

English

Keywords

Mara Salvatrucha, El Salvador, counterinsurgency, mass incarceration, deportation, Los Angeles

Document Type

Thesis

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