Abstract

PERRET, Gimena. From Exiles to Migrants... An Analysis of the Migratory Experience of Chilean Political Exiles in Argentina. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2015, n.51, pp.162-172. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res51.2015.12.

This paper aims to present some preliminary hypotheses resulting from the doctoral research we have carried out on the migratrory experience of Chilean political exiles in Argentina. We are interested in seeing how the fact that many of them did not return home from exile after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) impacted political and social organization in our country. We presume that this phenomenon has produced a kind of displacement of their self-representation from exiles to migrants that makes it possible to acknowledge the migratory dimension of exile and thereby constitutes a new type of political being that is binationally committed to transnational political rights.

Keywords : Chileans in Argentina; exile; migratory experience; no-return; political organization.

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