Exile, Transnational Life, Return, and Diasporas: The Southern Cone Experience

Luis Roniger*

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Abstract

This article analyzes the experience of massive exile during the last wave of dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and particularly the process of partial return to the home countries. Given the dramatic and unparalleled institutional breakdown that affected these societies, each in different ways and at varying degrees, the text addresses what limits, difficulties, or shortcomings the former exiles encountered upon their return; what the impact of returnees was on their respective national landscape; and how the transnational experience of those displaced individuals affected the home institutions, politics, and national culture upon their return to their home countries. Finally, it explores how the home countries have addressed and related to the persistent diasporas of co-nationals abroad, particularly those with academic and professional credentials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-29
Number of pages29
JournalMiddle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

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Keywords

  • democratization
  • exile
  • institutional and cultural impacts
  • return
  • transnational experiences

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