Trayectorias laborales de inmigrantes peruanos en Santiago: El origen de excepción y la persistencia del “lugar aparte”

Virtual Communities of Anglo and Spanish Migrants in Chile. A Multiple Case Study

“…Furthermore, regarding the denomination "expat", some participants had no problem with it and used it during the interview situation and on their websites, while others associated it with an upper class status and a discriminatory attitude, so preferred the terms migrant or immigrant instead, which seemed to be more formal or neutral for them. The term expat is associated to relocated employees of transnational firms or to young adventurers (Green 2009) and implies a differentiation -intentional or not-of other migrants that come to Chile, who are often discriminated for having a low level of qualification, coming from a poorer country in South America or one that has a historical rivalry with Chile, belonging to an ethnic minority or been seen as a threat to national security (Acosta 2013;Cárdenas 2010;Domingo, 2015;Tijoux and Retamales 2015;Yañez and Cárdenas 2010).…”

Migration, Fears and the Media in the Presidential Election in Chile (2017)

“…Luego de los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001, en Nueva York, Chile se ha posicionado como un destino de la migración, particularmente en aquellas Sur-Sur (Godoy, 2007;Santander, 2006;Stefoni, 2005). En números absolutos, esta migración se ha cuadruplicado desde el fin de la dictadura de Pinochet (1973de Pinochet ( -1990 hasta la actualidad, y cuenta con rasgos bastante específicos debido a la fuerte presencia femenina, indígena y afrodescendiente (Tijoux;Sir-Retamales, 2015). Sin embargo, se puede observar un patrón en la última década por: 1) aumento de la cantidad de migrantes; 2) diversificación de países de origen; y 3) mayor presencia de migrantes en regiones (Mundaca et al, 2018).…”

Psychological and Structural Barriers to Immigrant Community Participation: The Experience of Peruvians in Santiago de Chile

“…The desire to build a modern "European-style" nation-state brought Chilean history to be characterized by racial homogenization (Quijano, 2015) and marginalization of indigenous communities such as the Mapuches who have been the primary target of racism (see Atallah, 2016). Today, symbolic and physical violence towards immigrants of indigenous and/or Black descent continues in Chile (Tijoux, 2016;Tijoux & Retamales, 2015), even if they emigrated from other Latin American countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and more recently Haiti and Venezuela.…”