Podcast now available from 'Living With Lifelong Exile' event
The Department recently hosted a workshop entitled 'Living with Lifelong Exile: Reflections on the Chilean case'. The workshop explored the long term impacts of exile, particularly in relation to health and wellbeing, drawing lessons from Chilean experiences of exile to the UK. You can listen to the keynote talk and see the programme from the workshop below.
Keynote podcast part 1
Keynote podcast part 2
This workshop will explore the long term impacts of exile, particularly in relation to health and wellbeing, drawing lessons from Chilean experiences of exile to the UK. Literature around refugee coping strategies has tended to focus on the immediate aftermath and few years after arrival. There is however a lack of knowledge and discussion in the literature about the long term health and well being of refugees who stay in the host country after return is technically possible. The Chilean case offers opportunity to understand how far forced migrants are able to adapt to life in the host country and how people cope in the long term with the impact of trauma and torture.
Living with lifelong exile: Reflections on the Chilean case
Welcome introduction: Cristina Navarette (Chilean Ex- Political Prisoner Association) and Jasmine Gideon (Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Health, well being and exile
Understanding mental health needs among refugee populations
Felicity Thomas, (Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Living with lifelong exile: the case of Chileans in the UK
Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London
Latin Americans in the UK and access to health care
Carolina Gottardo, Director, Latin American Women’s Rights Service
The impact of torture and trauma on Latin American exile populations
Angela Burnett – Freedom from Torture
Perico Rodriguez – Freedom from Torture
Cristina Navarette, Association of Chilean Women Ex Political Prisoners
Pedro Fuentes, Chilean Community in South Yorkshire
Exile and (Post) Transitional Justice in the Chilean Case
Cath Collins, Professor of Transitional Justice, Ulster University/ Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.
Themes: Recent grassroots and (now) official efforts in Chile to prosecute perpetrators of past human rights violations; related programmes of official reparations and truth-telling for survivors.
Forgiveness and Reconciliation following human rights abuses. Is it possible?
Cristian Peña – Clinical Psychologist & Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
(Director of the Londres Practice, Research Fellow at ICHHR, Clinical Psychologist at UCLH).
Final reflections
Showing of the film ‘La Hora Chilena’,
The film explores the experiences of Chilean exiles living in Cambridge and will be presented with an introductory talk by the Director, Camila Iturra, herself the daughter of Chilean exiles
This workshop has been made possible through the support of the Society for Latin American Studies (http://www.slas.org.uk/)