The last ten years has seen a substantial growth in studies on political exiles, both in terms of the subjects and problems that they choose to investigate. This book is enrooted in this process since it crystallises reflections and concerns that are confluent within the field. This work brings together innovative pieces of research that were presented at the International Colloquium of Research on the Political Exiles of the Southern Cone, celebrated on 11 October 2017 at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

This book compiles the action taken by Amnesty International to defend human rights in Uruguay during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly linked to the national and international efforts to build support networks for victims of political persecution. It develops an in-depth account of the cases of the legislators Michelini, Gutiérrez Ruiz, and Ferreira Aldunate.

This report by the Madres y Familiares de Uruguayos Detenidos Desparecidos (Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Uruguayan Detainees) constitutes an effort to bring together the information about the disappeared detainees and the conditions of their capture that had been gathered until the report was published in 2004. It also contains information about political assassinations and the children who were appropriated and returned to their biological families.

This book explores the history of the conformation and trajectory of the fights of the Asociación Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Desparecidos de Uruguay (The Uruguayan Association for the Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Detainees) from 1976 to 2005. The different stages in the claims for the truth to be known about the whereabouts of the disappeared detainees, both on national soil and in the region, is systematised through testimonies from the protagonists and key documents that unfold the context of the political disputes of these years and its projection onto the present.