Further Reading

A comprehensive analysis of Chilean history is offered in Brian Loveman’s classic monograph, Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism (New York, 1979). A good understanding of the economic and political conditions that fostered Chilean immigration to Canada is provided in Lois Hecht Oppenheim, Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development (Boulder, Colo., 1993), and Joseph Collins and John Lear, Chile’s Free Market Miracle: A Second Look (Oakland, Calif., 1995). Chileans as part of a Latin American presence in Canada are discussed systematically in Fernando Mata, “Latin American Immigration to Canada: Some Reflections on the Immigration Statistics,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, vol.10, no.20 (1985), 27–42. Also, during the 1980s, the Latin American Research Centre of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, published several studies on the conditions of Latin American immigrants and some of these include information on Chileans.

For a study of Chilean immigration to Canada, see Marcela Duran, “Life in Exile: Chileans in Canada,” Multiculturalism, vol.3, no.4 (1980), 13–16, and T. Basok’s Models of Successful Leadership: A Case of Chileans in Toronto (Toronto, 1983). The predominantly 1970s Ontario focus of these studies is expanded to some degree in a short sketch, “The Chileans,” in The Canadian Family Tree (Don Mills, Ont., 1979), 42–43. A more recent study is Jaime Llambias Wolff, Notre exil pour parler: les Chiliens au Québec (Montréal, 1987).

Those interested in Chilean refugees should read the article by George Hanff, “Decision Making under Pressure: A Study of the Admittance of Chilean Refugees to Canada,” North/South, vol.6, no.8 (1979), 116–35, as well as F. Marsden, Chilean Refugee Households in Canada: Final Report of a Two-Stage Survey, 1975–76 (Ottawa, 1977).

S. Johnson and C. Johnson, “Institutional Origins in the Chilean Refugee Community in Winnipeg,” Prairie Forum, vol.7, no.2 (1982), and Carlos Piña and Elizabeth McLuhan, “The Enríquez Family,” in Safe Haven: The Refugee Experience of Five Families, ed. Elizabeth McLuhan (Toronto, 1995), 67–113. The topic of posttraumatic stress resulting from torture has been studied in F. Allodi and A. Rojas, A Study of Mental Health and Social Adaptation of Hispanic American Refugees in Toronto (Toronto, 1983).

There are also several works published in Spanish that deal with specific aspects of Chilean-Canadian life. For example, the monographic study by José Del Pozo, Los chilenos del Quebec y los estudios avanzados: Memorias y tesis sobre Chile en Canadá (Montreal, 1994), describes the different types of advanced studies that have been carried out about Chileans in Canada. His book, Rebeldes, reformistas y revolucionarios: Una historia oral de la izquierda chilena en la época de la Unidad Popular (Santiago, 1992), provides an interesting analysis of the ideological perspectives of Chilean immigrants in Canada. Chilean literature in Canada is well-represented in a poetry anthology edited by Naín Nomes, Historias del Reino Vigilado/Stories of a Guarded Kingdom (Ottawa, 1981), and in another by Manuel A. Jofré, Historia natural (Toronto, 1980).