This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be
formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations such as the
survivors of this massacre and are limited in their ability to contribute to the demands for
reparation of the affected populations. Instead based on an ethnographic study of the pain and
suffering generated in the survivors the book proposes the concept of deracination as a tool
to study land dispossession. It captures both the complex local specificities the global
linkages of this phenomenon and the strategies of resistance used by the people of this
community to channel what seems as an impossible mourning.
