Exile and legality. Agenda for a History of the legal-normative struggles of the Argentine exiles during the last military dictatorship

Abstract

This article aims to outline an agenda to problematize the relationship between exile and legality in Argentina during the "National Reorganization Process". Since Argentina has made historiography focus on extrajudicial, illegal and clandestine dimensions of dictatorial repression and that emphasis on the forced disappearance of persons and the concentration camp system has delayed the question of their institutionalized, legal and legal dimensions, this paper asks about three issues on which the complaint was incardinated exiles with legal regulations terrorist-state dimensions, namely: 1. The reasons why the anti-dictatorship struggle exiles attended the repressive-legal face of the dictatorship; 2. The place occupied by the different forms of exile caused by the terrorist state in denouncing the authoritarian legality; 3. The forms adopted by the appeal of exiles to law (national and international) for truth about the fate of the missing, to get the release of those detained without charges or trial and to prosecute those responsible for violations of human rights.