Exile and Diaspora in an Atypical Context: Chileans and Argentineans in the United States (1973–2005)

Abstract

This article focuses on two groups of Southern Cone exiles' communities, Chileans and Argentineans, choosing to settle down in an atypical destination: the United States. After estimating some qualitative and quantitative findings, the article delves into the ways these communities settle down, remember their relationship with politics, maintain their connection with exiled fellow‐countrymen worldwide and perceive their national identity. By relying on an empirical, single‐case perspective, with no theoretical ambitions to extrapolate its conclusions to other contexts, this article examines the extent to which the conceptualisation of the exile and diaspora categories changes when applied to these two communities.

Self-Selection and Host Country Context in the Economic Assimilation of Political Refugees in the United States, Sweden, and Israel

“… 7 Other studies have also referred to immigrants from Chile and Argentinians as political refugees (Duvander 2001; Klinthäll 2007; Calandra 2013). …”

Staying Alive: 1970s Southern Cone Exiles in the UK

“…But at that time, exiles' voices, which had previously been conveyed mainly through autobiographies and creative expressions (Kaminsky, 1999; Roniger, 2016), began to be the object of a gradually blooming body of more systematic analyses. Pioneering studies in this field were those looking at this exile in Mexico (Yankelevich, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2012; Dutrénit‐Bielous, 2001, 2006), and analyses of other host countries soon followed (Markarian, 2005; del Pozo Artigas, 2006; Wright and Oñate Zúñiga, 2007, 2012; Franco, 2007, 2008, 2012; Yankelevich and Jensen, 2007; Roniger, Green and Yankelevich, 2012; Calandra, 2013; Roniger et al, 2018). However, only a few scholars have looked at the UK and they have mostly focused on single Southern Cone countries and specific sub‐groups.…”