Migration to neoliberal Chile: citizenship, roots and autonomy

The growing flow of immigration to Chile and the conditions of settlement have highlighted the existing tension between identity, mobility, borders and nationality within the framework of a neoliberal State with outdated immigration regulations. This article aims to point out the fissures and incons...

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Autores: Rodríguez Torrent, Juan Carlos, Vargas Callegari, Rodrigo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN
Repositorio:Política, Globalidad y Ciudadanía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revpoliticas.uanl.mx:article/268
Acceso en línea:https://revpoliticas.uanl.mx/index.php/RPGyC/article/view/268
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciudadanía
estado
inmigración
multiculturalidad
política migratoria
Citizenship
immigration
immigration policy
multiculturalism
state
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Sumario:The growing flow of immigration to Chile and the conditions of settlement have highlighted the existing tension between identity, mobility, borders and nationality within the framework of a neoliberal State with outdated immigration regulations. This article aims to point out the fissures and inconsistencies between the official discourse about a successful and prosperous country, and the true experience of living in Chile. Based on ethnographic and ethnological research, the evidence shows that migrating to Chile can become an exercise in creativity between autonomy and hope, a fact that raises the need to update the composition of an identity model that is sustained in an apparent normality. We conclude that Chile is a much more heterogeneous construction today, and the importance of reviewing the discourses in circulation is revealed to update the identity of sociocultural diversity in Chilean society in later stages.