"To Take with You a Little Piece of Chile": Exiles and Art from Home

Abstract

Forced migration is one of the most pressing issues of current and recent times. How refugees, one category of forced migrant, manage their condition of being unwillingly in a foreign land is a question that deserves further examination. This paper focuses on the Chilean exile during the Pinochet regime, and examines a dimension of their experience: their engagement with art from their home country. It explores the meanings that such art held for them, and the effects that the exiles attribute to their engagement with it.