The goal of this article is to describe the new experiences that close female family members of disappeared persons have after the enforced disappearance. These relatives experience rupture with their pre-disappearance lives. Their everyday routines cease and the search for the disappeared person takes over. Some relatives experience impoverishment and many lose their children or spouse to emigration. Parts or all of their extended family cut off ties, friendships end, and some neighbors avoid them. A local humanitarian or human rights organization and an association of relatives of disappeared persons come to occupy a central place in relatives’ lives and become “like a second family.” Focusing on enforced disappearance during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, this research is based on interviews with relatives of people who disappeared, on a year’s participant observation with a group of these relatives, and on the examination of relatives’ denunciatory art (dissident pictures in cloth called “arpilleras”).

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强迫失踪：家庭成员的经历

本文的目的是描述失踪人员的亲密女性家庭成员在被强迫失踪后的新经历。这些亲属在他们失踪前的生活中经历了破裂。他们的日常生活停止了，寻找失踪者的工作开始了。一些亲戚陷入贫困，许多人因移民而失去孩子或配偶。他们的部分或全部大家庭切断了联系，友谊结束，一些邻居避开他们。当地的人道主义或人权组织以及失踪人员亲属协会开始在亲属的生活中占据中心位置，并变得“像第二个家庭”。这项研究关注智利皮诺切特独裁统治期间的强迫失踪，基于对失踪人员亲属的采访，