La militancia en el exilio parisino y su interacción con las redes transnacionales de Derechos Humanos: la construcción del concepto de víctima del conflicto.

Abstract

Focusing on the Uruguayan exile in France, more precisely in Paris, we try to approach the organization of the militancy of those who were forced to leave the country. To understand the problems of exile, is to attend a series of multidirectional exchanges which change the life of the exiled and impact on the host society.It is in this context that we can understand the role in which different social groups, politicians and activists are positioned in their attempt to reorganize their fight against the Uruguayan dictatorship. This search for positioning and the appropriation of human rights language (which has been traditionally opposed), preserving objectives and ideals, has resulted in the evolution of the concept of victim in the conflict.This exchange, largely enabled by the bridge created by the work of the activists in exile, as a spokesperson for what happens in Uruguay against transnational networks of human rights, makes the concept of « militant » or « victim » change. Its impact on the democratic transition of Uruguayan society will not be less and it will open debates and divergent positions on the treatment of the recent past.

Keywords

• Dictatorship
• exile
• France
• Militancy
• repression
• Uruguay