Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

desterrados

English translation:

exiles

Added to glossary by chica nueva
Jun 5, 2011 14:39
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Spanish term

desterrados

Spanish to English Art/Literary Journalism género: ensayo
un pueblo invisible de desterrados

Un pueblo invisible de desterrados sobrevive en celdas oscuras de cemento y mira con una tristeza sin fondo al muro que suele haber al otro lado de los barrotes. Son los centenares, los miles de chimpancés que fueron cazados en África en la primera infancia para servir de sujetos de experimentos médicos, o de payasos peludos en los circos, o como mascotas que nadie quiere ni soporta una vez que han empezado a volverse adultos.

(Antonio Muñez Molina, 1956- "Nuestros semejantes")

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exiles/deportees

The idea is that they have been banished from their country.
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agree ormiston : as in uprooted. I think so far this is best. The notion of outcast comes later.
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outcasts

That would be my choice

A huge population of outcasts was produced

http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/s/20486-sir-thomas-mor...
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landless people/peoples

another suggestion
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"brought from Africa"

An invisible community brought from Africa.
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