Arquivos e reconstrução de trajetórias de vida: a dimensão transnacional e transcultural dos exílios.

This paper intends to debate the historian's problems regarding private archives and exiles. It deals with the difficulties of reconstructing the political roots of the exiles in their host countries and analyses the ways the historian must work in order to reconstruct the networks among the exiles. The article is based on research about the Portuguese Republican exiles in Spain and Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]