The research center on America and the Caribe (CIALC) and the Chair on Exile of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) organized this international symposium to promote new approaches to the study of Spanish Civil War exile. The event highlighted the plurality of experiences of the exile and its different contexts, as well as the diversity of displaced groups (children, workers, peasants, professionals, intellectuals, politicians and others), together with the variety of origins and destinies in Latin America and the Caribbean