Contranarrativas de la ausencia a través de las historias de vida

Migrantes sicilianos desaparecidos durante la dictadura argentina (1976-1983)

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ID17818686
AuthorsAlberto Todaro (0009-0009-5925-2484), Raquel Martínez Chicón (0000-0003-1509-9405)
Year2026
Issue63
Pages173-194
Publication date2026-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntípoda Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2011-4273 • E-ISSN: 1900-5407
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.7440/antipoda63.2026.08
OpenAlexW7160245568
LanguageES
References cited10

While Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) has been extensively studied, less attention has been paid to how migration, nationality, and forced disappearance intersect as connected forms of violence across different times and spaces. Drawing on the concept of intertwined violences, this article examines how these dimensions extended state terror beyond national borders, approaching disappearance not only as an attack on bodies but also on identities. The article builds a counter-narrative to absence by bringing into view the life histories of Sicilian migrants who were disappeared during the dictatorship. From an ethnographic perspective, it focuses on cases recorded by the Italian Consulate in Buenos Aires—Salvatore Privitera, Claudio di Rosa, Vincenzo Fiore, Giovanni Camiolo, Silvana Cambi, and Giuseppe Vizzini. Through these cases, it traces life trajectories, migratory conditions, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance, drawing on diplomatic archives, testimonial sources, and human rights documentation. The findings indicate that the violence of the dictatorship went beyond repressive practices such as abductions, torture, clandestine detention centers, and death flights. It also produced symbolic boundaries that deepened the silencing of forced disappearance in both Argentina and Italy. The cases reveal a double erasure, as these lives were marginalized in both official and family narratives. In this context, ethnographic reconstruction—developed through a still limited transnational approach—emerges as a counter-narrative to absence: a way to challenge silence and restore these individuals to collective memory

Collective memory · Dictatorship · Ethnography · Human rights · Refugee · Silence · State (computer science) · Testimonial · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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