Participation of Chilean exiles in Costa Rican State Universities

Professionals from diverse occupational branches and disciplines were expelled from Chile as a result of repressive policies and the dismantling of the State during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Costa Rica, as a receiving country of this migratory flow, counted among the 1970s and 1980s, with the presence of more than a hundred Chilean professionals, who found in the local universities a fertile field for the strengthening and development of their skills. This article seeks to recognize their socio-professional profiles and their journeys through academia, using university archives and personal interviews as sources. From the investigation it was identified that, through the academic work, several of these people generated significant contributions from intellectual production, thematic innovation, university administration, the foundation of careers or from methodological and theoretical enrichment to multiple areas of knowledge.