Chicha Mariani busca a su nieta: another kind of human trafficking

Today’s post might appear to belong neither to migration nor sex-industry studies, but this search for a disappeared person can be called a case of human trafficking. With all the current ballyhoo about that subject, perhaps those looking for children ‘lost’ in Argentina in the 70s should make use of it.  I’m also posting this because the Internet offers possibilities unheard of in the past for seeking and finding people, and because I received this through complex affective labyrinths. And also because it shows an identity document that fastens a trafficked person to a particular piece of ground. I often question the efficacy of such documents, but this might be a good use of one. It’s a letter from a founder of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Chicha Mariani, to a grand-daughter who disappeared when her mother was murdered in 1976 in La Plata, Argentina. More of her lifelong struggle here.

At the same time, since it’s possible that the person being looked for would rather not be found, I hesitated to post this. Given the tenuous identifiers for her, I trust she will be able to continue to evade detection if she wants to.

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