Abstract

GAVIRIA-LONDONO, Marta Beatriz  and  LUNA-CARMONA, María Teresa. Human plurality in exile. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.2, pp.475-491. ISSN 1692-715X.

Abstract (analytical): Objectives: To tell"another story" of banishment to enlighten the understanding of the identity problem of the exiles and of the political phenomenon of banishment. Scope: A study conducted in Medellin, the second most important city in the country with the highest rate of exilereception in Colombia. Methodology: From conversational interviews to six men and women residents of Medellin, who had been violently expelled from rural areas; we build autobiographies, in which we shape and represent the fabric of meanings of experience, we create and apply an interpretative matrix on the triple Ricoeuriana mimicry. Results: It is possible to read in the autobiographies that banishment, seen as a narrative event, is a unique story, a loss of world that did not begin or finish with the expulsion; it evidences a reduced democracy, the precariousness of democracy, a deepening of injustices and other types of violence; and it reveals the banished subject as a moving being with different ways of appearing in the world, free and capable of initiating something new as an ethical and political person. Findings: Narrating humanizes the banished; it singularizes him/heras a "body", showing that as a moving being he/she is an ethical and political subject.

Keywords : Pluralism; political refugees; autobiography; hermeneutics.

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