El exilio chileno contado por mujeresla experiencia del proyecto “Exiliadas” en Madrid y Barcelona

Abstract

Chilean exilie after the coup d'état in 1973 left an indelible mark on the lives of nearly 400 thousand people who had to leave their lives abruptly after an experience of repression, torture and persecution. Of this figure, 30% were women who left for countries in many cases of unknown languages and cultures and without a host for refugees, to start a new life. The literary project Exiliadas seeks to recover that memory, with a gender perspective, in a book that will gather testimonies of exiles who stayed to live in the most emblematic countries of the Chilean exile such as Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Argentina. In this literary project, where the discourse of these displaced people has special significance, the migration of these women is analyzed, under the following thematic axes: exit from Chile, arrival in the host country,militancy and insertion.