Staying Alive: 1970s Southern Cone Exiles in the UK

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to the study of the 1970s dictatorships in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay by looking at one specific aspect of those regimes: exile. It considers exile in the UK, a host country on which research is limited, and claims that the fundamental political ideas that had inspired these exiles did not vanish but were variously reshaped, depending on changing political circumstances, how the exiles interacted with local forms of solidarity, and how they lived through the personal challenges that they experienced during exile.

La Unidad Popular chilena (1970-1973): balance historiográfico y nuevas perspectivas trasnacionales

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British Academia's Response to the coup d'état in Chile: The Case of Academics for Chile

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