Exiles, violence and memories of the past and present
El Working Group on Exiles, Violence and Memories of the Past and Present This study proposes to address exiles originating in contexts of expulsion in Latin America and the Caribbean by considering two important elements: on the one hand, that in the recent Latin American past, military dictatorships and regimes of exception implemented novel matrices of repression that included annihilation, disappearance, torture and massive and systematic exiles of part of the population
On the other hand, these repressive mechanisms are being repeated today as a result of the authoritarian shifts taking place in various Latin American countries, which have renewed their criminalizing discourses and strategies of political persecution through cases of judicialization, executions, arbitrary detentions, and the suppression of the civil and political rights of their population.
In this sense, this Working Group takes a long-term view that aims to address the history of Latin American violence and exile from the 20th century to the present, considering the continuities, transformations and ruptures of these experiences of political displacement and paying attention to the repertoires of action and resistance that expatriate communities deploy from abroad.
Coordinate
Soledad Lastra
Institute for Social Research
Humanities Coordination
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexico
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Silvina Jensen
Department of Humanities of the National University of the South
National University of Sur
Argentina
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