Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable

Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chilean leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d'etat. 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. Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles.