Exile and forced migrations: Sociopoliticall logics, national dynamics and impacts in Latin America. A conversation between Luis Roniger and José Carlos Luque Brazán
Abstract
This dialogue with sociologist Luis Roniger examines exile and forced migration in Latin America as structural political processes, rooted in the region's history and institutional practices. From the colonial era to contemporary democracies, exile has operated as a mechanism of exclusion, identity formation, and transnational projection of democratic struggles. Roniger underscores the role of exile networks in the defense of human rights, as well as the centrality of memory, truth, and the political agency of the displaced. The conversation also addresses contemporary displacements linked to global crises, persistent inequalities, violence, migration biopolitics, and accelerated civilizational transformations. The need to recover exiled voices to understand citizenship and democratic resistance in the present is highlighted.
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