While conducting research in Chile, Dr. Shayne became increasingly interested in exile. The Pinochet dictatorship forced over one million Chileans into exile in at least 140 nations around the world. In a great majority of those countries exiles organized with local solidarity activists to denounce the dictatorship, and by some estimates were in part responsible for Pinochet's ultimate removal from power. Her current book, They Used to Call Us Witches: Feminism, Culture, and Resistance in the Chilean Diaspora, is a gendered social history of the Canadian manifestation of this transnational movement via a case study analysis of Vancouver, British Columbia.

In They Used to Call Us Witches she analyzes and documents the anti-Pinochet solidarity movement organized by Chilean exiles in Canada during the 1970s and 80s and the feminist movement that followed in the 1990s. Within this historical framework she addresses several issues: 1) the roles and experiences of Chilean women in the solidarity movement, 2) the organizational and strategic place of culture and emotions in the movement, and 3) the significance of feminism and feminist activism to Chilean women exiles, especially in the post-Pinochet period.

They Used to Call Us Witches is based on data collected in four specific ways: one on one interviews; group interviews/focus groups; content analysis of primary documents from and media coverage of the solidarity and feminist movements, and limited participant observation with the Vancouver based email list called LAVA. Additionally, the book includes data collected from her research in Chile in 1998-1999 at which point she conducted interviews, did archival research about the anti-Pinochet and feminist movements within Chile during the dictatorship, and limited participant observation through attending protests and street rallies.

They Used to Call Us Witches is under contract with Lexington Books (http://www.lexingtonbooks.com).

Dr. Shayne currently has two articles based on the book under review:

• "Exile Feminism in the Chilean Diaspora". Accepted for Transnational Feminism collection, eds. Priya Jha and Nandini Bhattacharya.
and
• "¡Empanadas, Music, and Non-Chilean Wine! Culture and Resistance in the Chilean Diaspora." Under review by the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.