Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 Volume 10

by Francis Peddie

Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d' tat. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887557716
• ISBN13: 9780887557712
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"