Carol Chan | Universidad Diego Portales (original) (raw)

Peer-reviewed articles by Carol Chan

Applied Mobilities, 2023

By discussing the multinational labor migration trajectories of Indonesian and Filipino women to ... more By discussing the multinational labor migration trajectories of Indonesian and Filipino women to Chile, this article proposes the term “patchwork infrastructures” to examine the improvised coordination between multiple persons and institutions that facilitate and enable such uncommon migration pathways. Drawing on ethnographic research and 41 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2018–2022 with migrant women, employers, and relevant state actors in Chile, I focus on two such journeys that occurred partially due to instances of infrastructural failures in Southeast Asia and the absence of a coherent migration infrastructure connecting Southeast Asia and Latin America. Patchwork infrastructure highlights the creative practices and complex relations that were forged and maintained to ensure the eventual migration and emplacement of women whose journeys had been disrupted, prevented, or delayed. A focus on such processes of “patchworking” highlights the high level of human discretion, arbitrary decision, and action in interactions among diverse actors involved in migration. Patchwork infrastructure calls for attention to the micro- and personal level of infrastructuring migration in contexts where relevant institutions fail or are absent; these processes demonstrate the generative and expansive nature of infrastructure.

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2023

While researchers have highlighted the emotional distress of migrant domestic workers who experie... more While researchers have highlighted the emotional distress of migrant domestic workers who experience abuse by employers, less is known about long-term effects of the psychological abuse that they experience. Drawing from a broader ethnographic study of Filipino and Indonesian migration to Chile, we analyze three Filipina domestic workers' migration narratives to examine how they narrate and manage the long-term effects of psychological abuse in the domestic workplace that they experienced more than ten years earlier. Building on insights from medical anthropology and using narrative analysis, we contribute to discussions on migrants' mental health and psychosocial wellbeing by showing how these migrants seek to make meaningful sense of their previous experiences to deal with the enduring effects. We show that they construct alternative narratives that foreground their experiences as linked to structural factors and suggest that their psychosocial wellbeing is linked to their ability to subvert or derive meaning from earlier experiences of structural violence.

Critical Sociology, 2022

Many Chilean women employers desire domestic workers who are also 'partners' or 'someone to do li... more Many Chilean women employers desire domestic workers who are also 'partners' or 'someone to do life with'. Taking 'partnership' or 'compañerismo' seriously, this paper draws on an affective labor framework and economic sociology to examine how care and power operate in affective and highly commodified labor relations between Chilean women employers and migrant Filipina domestic workers. We contextualize this discussion within historical relations of servitude in Chile and salient demands for more horizontal social and gender relations. We show that rather than reinforcing power or control, employers' emphases on affective aspects of the labor relation enable their willful ignorance of power hierarchies, through normalizing the racialized presence of the worker in the household. However, explicit talk about money exposes the material conditions of affect and care in this racialized affective relationship. This reveals the uneven distribution and production of both care and power in the household, and highlights the disruptive nature of care work as affective labor.

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2023

Critical scholarship on migrant brokers and brokerage have problematized the popular dichotomy of... more Critical scholarship on migrant brokers and brokerage have problematized the popular dichotomy of brokers as either altruistic or exploitative. Current research seeks instead to understand the diverse relationships and power dynamics between such migration intermediaries and migrants, and the strategies that both parties employ to reduce the risks inherent in long-distance international migration journeys. Drawing from a broader ethnographic project on Southeast Asian migration to Chile, this article presents the narratives of two Filipina women who facilitated the migration of Filipina domestic workers to Chile. Analysis of their experiences contributes to problematizing the category of "broker" and to understanding the complex and gendered dynamics of care and control that some intermediaries establish with migrants. I emphasize how these brokers' gendered migrant subjectivities shape their processes and strategies of mediation. In the specific context of Southeast Asian migration, focusing on these intermediaries sheds light on more individualized forms of migrant brokerage, in contrast to the predominant research on migration policies and commercial migrant recruitment and placement agencies. Attending to the complexity of who "brokers" are and their roles is important in apprehending migration and border policies that depend on defining their roles in the migration process.

Crime, Law & Social Change, 2022

The meanings of "human trafficking" vary according to political, legal, and sociocultural context... more The meanings of "human trafficking" vary according to political, legal, and sociocultural contexts. This article contributes to understanding the global variation and challenges in enforcing anti-human trafficking laws, by examining how Chilean law enforcement responded to suspected cases of trafficking into forced labor after the Anti-Trafficking Law was enacted in 2011. We present qualitative research on suspected cases of labor trafficking involving Indonesian women in the city of Punta Arenas, including interviews with suspected victims, prosecutors, plaintiff attorneys, anti-trafficking legal advocates, and Indonesian embassy representatives. We argue that four aspects of Chilean legal culture illuminate multiple challenges to identifying and prosecuting cases of labor trafficking in Chile: the perspective that cases of labor disputes and labor trafficking are mutually exclusive; the heterogeneous understandings and definitions of forced labor and human trafficking; the normalization of migrant labor exploitation; and the lack of coordination between relevant institutions and stakeholders. Examining these cases that were investigated between the years 2011 and 2019 allows us to identify the development of a specific legal culture regarding human trafficking into forced labor in Chile.

Ethnicities, 2021

Chief Caupolican is Emile Barrangon, an early 20th-century performer in the US who was born in Ch... more Chief Caupolican is Emile Barrangon, an early 20th-century performer in the US who was born in Chile to an indigenous Mapuche father and a French mother. Despite his fame, he has not yet been included in studies on indigenous agency in Native American representations, likely because of his immigrant origins. We situate his indigenous selfidentification and media success within the broader context of ongoing pan-indigenous activism in the country and Native Americans' efforts to engage indigenous representations in the media. The pan-indigenous movement that sought to unify indigenous political claims, regardless of tribal affiliation, enabled and encouraged foreign-born aborigines and persons of mixed ancestry to identify with indigeneity in ways that transcend nation-state borders. By presenting and examining his multi-faceted life, performance, and political views, this article contributes to better understanding the complex dynamics of the indigenous performance landscape in the early 20th century.

Revista Historia de Historia Social y de Las Mentalidades, 2020

Este artículo propone que los intermediarios han sido poco considerados o ignorados en las discus... more Este artículo propone que los intermediarios han sido poco considerados o ignorados en las discusiones políticas y académicas sobre migración internacional en América Latina. Rescatando el rol histórico de los intermediarios o brokers en la migración global, se busca desafiar el énfasis sobre la agencia de migrantes y el rol del Estado en explicar migración regional, presentando el estado del arte sobre infraestructura de migración y su relevancia. Finalmente, se muestra que los diversos casos de migraciones asiáticas en Chile evidencian la importancia política del concepto y el fenómeno del uso de intermediarios.

Citizenship Studies, 2020

Chinese migrants are often used as an example of socio-spatial self-segregation, exemplified in C... more Chinese migrants are often used as an example of socio-spatial self-segregation, exemplified in Chinatown studies. Drawing on scholarship on citizenship and multiculturalism, I analyze the case study of the ethnic Chinese in Santiago, Chile, to interrogate their perceived reluctance towards social or political integration. Analysis draws on interviews, participation observation, and media coverage of a 2016 Chinese mass protest in the city center, and a 2018 proposal by the Santiago mayor to establish a Chinatown in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood. By discussing Chinese and Chilean interpretations of these events, I highlight the diverse practices of citizenship and identity – between ‘old’ and ‘new’ Chinese migrant groups in Chile. These not only challenge views of Chinese migrants as homogenous and/or politically disengaged. It also highlights complex evolving practices and attitudes towards belonging and citizenship in the diversifying overseas Chinese population, in an era marked by tropes about ‘the rise of China.’

Asian Ethnicity, 2020

Ethnic Chinese and Asians have historically been excluded, invisibilized, or experienced conditio... more Ethnic Chinese and Asians have historically been excluded, invisibilized, or experienced conditional inclusion in South America. In Chile, the global pandemic provoked an increase in older patterns of anti-Chinese racism and anti-China sentiments. Orientalist and racist discourses have gone uncriticized, although anti-China statements by politicians and academics have provoked diplomatic backlash. Contextualizing the history of orientalism and representations of Chineseness in Chile, we show that dominant political and cultural discourses during COVID-19 strongly reproduce the dichotomy between the ‘Oriental’ and ‘Occidental.’ The pandemic reveals the superficial and problematic nature of the government’s recent attempts to articulate multiculturalism in an era of ‘rise in China’ tropes.

Journal of Chinese Overseas, 2020

Despite a long history of Chinese presence in Chile and the Americas, the Chinese tend to remain ... more Despite a long history of Chinese presence in Chile and the Americas, the Chinese tend to remain in a state of conditional visibility. Questioning the paradoxical ubiquity and invisibility of expressions of Chineseness in the physical and cultural landscape of Santiago, we examine cultural and discursive processes of (re)production that contribute to this scenario. Informed by understandings of identity and contextualized by the history of the Chinese presence in Chile, we consider the diverse ways in which Chinese people and Chineseness are portrayed on Chilean television and in films and theatre plays. We examine how these representations enable forms of subordination and silencing, and/or highlight the agency of Chinese persons. We show that while Chineseness and Chinese people are typically depicted as one-dimensional and incomprehensible , some productions visibilize and problematize such empty stereotypes. Finally, we demonstrate how these representations resignify Chineseness in a broader Latin American and global context.

Material Religion The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief , 2020

Material manifestations of the Chinese popular deities, Guanyin and Guan Gong, are ubiquitous in ... more Material manifestations of the Chinese popular deities, Guanyin and Guan Gong, are ubiquitous in Cantonese-Chinese restaurants globally. Yet studies of Chinese popular religion among overseas Chinese have seldom focused on the diverse significance of these deities to Chinese migrants, nor the use of restaurant-spaces to house these deities. This article examines the presence and powers of such deities in Chinese restaurants of Santiago de Chile. We seek to understand how the presence or absence of Guanyin and Guan Gong figures specifically shapes migrant Chinese restauranteurs and workers’ experience of the restaurants as particular kinds of protected, sacred/secular spaces, and how these deities might also affectively shape the restauranteurs’ ways of being and inhabiting the restaurants. Based on semi-structured interviews with Chinese shopkeepers and workers, observation and photography of the spatial organization of 26 restaurants and the aesthetics of their deities, we argue that these restaurants are more than just their primary sources of livelihood. We argue that they approximate Soja’s “thirdspaces” (1996), which on the one hand mediate their interactions with the city and its other residents, and on the other hand mediate relationships between humans in the earthly world and deities in the “other” parallel world.

Global Networks, 2020

In this article, I examine the multinational mobility and citizenship practices of ethnic Chinese... more In this article, I examine the multinational mobility and citizenship practices of ethnic Chinese who moved to Chile after living in another Latin American country. Despite being permanent residents or Chilean citizens, some hope to return to a previous country of residence in Latin America. Based on 18 semi‐structured interviews conducted between October 2016 and August 2018, their experiences illuminate two aspects of multinational migrations. First, unlike pre‐planned serial migrations of global elites or ‘step‐wise’ migrant workers, these multinational mobilities are nonlinear and open‐ended, due to their contingence on volatile and racialized political economies. Second, unlike transnational migrants who typically maintain links to ‘origin’ countries, they seldom visit China or Taiwan, and instead visit other countries in the Americas, due to business, familial, and affective ties. I discuss the main factors shaping the contingent nature of their mobilities and attachments to Chile, which influences the multiple onward pathways possible in their futures.

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019

Precarious labour research has highlighted the multidimensional factors shaping migrants’ vulnera... more Precarious labour research has highlighted the multidimensional factors shaping migrants’ vulnerability to labour exploitation. This article takes a different approach by attending to the possible reciprocity in labour relations-- despite unequal power dynamics-- particularly when workplaces are small and involve daily interactions between migrant workers and migrant employers. Methodology is based on observations in Chinese-run retail shops and restaurants in Santiago, and interviews with Chinese employers and their Latin American migrant employees of diverse backgrounds. Proposing the concept of “precarious labour relations,” we examine the independent and shared uncertainties between migrant employers and workers who are differently marginalized through race/migrant status axes in Chile. Analyzing dynamics of hierarchy, (mis)trust, and reciprocity in how these actors negotiate precarity and security as workers and/or migrants, we complicate dichotomies of exploitation and resistance in migrant labour research, by foregrounding the multidimensional relationship between employers and workers when both are racialized migrants and minorities

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2018

In response to Indonesia’s1998 riots, which included mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women, many ... more In response to Indonesia’s1998 riots, which included mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women, many Chinese-Indonesian families sent their daughters out of country to try and ensure their safety. Drawing on interviews with Chinese-Indonesian women currently living in Singapore and Australia, this article considers the long-term effects on transnational families of this departure. In contrast to current views of Chinese-Indonesians as an affluent diaspora, we show Chinese-Indonesian women’s experience to be that of exile, living outside Indonesia with little possibility of permanent return. We illuminate the subtle and enduring effects of political violence on women’s marital, reproductive, and childrearing practices. Interviews reveal fragmented identities and contingent household formations which enabled
family resilience for some but created long-term fissures for the majority. We argue for more critical attention to how gender mutually constitutes experiences of exile, and the long-term impacts of political violence on reproduction and family relations for Chinese-Indonesian women.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Multicultural commercial neighbourhoods are key spaces where individuals learn to relate to cultu... more Multicultural commercial neighbourhoods are key spaces where individuals learn to relate to cultural difference in increasingly diverse cities worldwide. Host countries’ pre-existing social dynamics and environmental conditions mutually shape everyday interactions between people from different ethnonational backgrounds within specific spaces. This article examines two kinds of community-making practices consisting of both intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic exchanges and collaborations, under conditions of shared insecurity in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood in Santiago, Chile. Drawing on ethnic Chinese experiences and responses to crime, we discuss how inhabitants of multicultural sites create more hospitable spaces by building and overcoming boundaries with co-ethnics, other migrants and ‘locals’. Our ethnographic study finds that Chinese residents engaged in what we term ‘strategic ethnic groupism’, which aims to prompt the solidarity of an ‘ethnic-based’ collective in order to politically organise towards long-term solutions. Yet, simultaneously, with other migrants and citizens, the Chinese negotiated everyday intercultural conviviality through creating relations of trust and care to address more immediate insecurity concerns. Discussing both strategies, this article contributes to understanding the productive frictions between ethnicity, community and belonging, under shared conditions of insecurity, in multicultural urban spaces.

Journal of Latin American Geography, 2018

Studies of relations between China and Latin America have largely focused on economic and politic... more Studies of relations between China and Latin America have largely focused on economic and political relations between the Chinese state and specific countries in the region, or examined the experiences of Chinese migrants in Latin American countries. This is also true in studies of China-Chile relations. Drawing on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with ethnic Chinese persons in Santiago, Chile, this article examines how “China” and “Latin America” are mutually constituted and negotiated through ethnic Chinese intra-regional geographical mobilities and social networks. These mobilities and networks illustrate that “China-Latin America relations” are not disembodied macro-processes. Instead, they constitute and dramatically shape the lives and opportunities of ethnic Chinese persons in the Americas. I attend to the concrete ways these persons exchange and create information, and negotiate complex regional identities and networks, in response to historical and contemporary geopolitical uncertainties. In doing so, this article provides an important ground-up perspective to the shifting power dynamics between China and Latin America.

International Migration Review, 2017

This article presents the first study of children born in Chile to at least one migrant parent – ... more This article presents the first study of children born in Chile to at least one migrant parent – the " second-generation ". Based on a mixed methods and child-centred approach, this article discusses institutional and experiential aspects of boundary and identity-making in Chile regarding race and nationality. We first review quantitative data from the state regarding the second-generation. Building on insights from comparative research on European states' second generation integration policies, we suggest how gathering targeted Census data in Chile can inform the long-term evaluation of state policies and programs for socio-cultural inclusion in education and labour. We also present qualitative data from interviews with ten second-generation children between ages eight to thirteen, born to parents from Peru and Ecuador. We attend to how they negotiate being perceived as " foreign " and/or " Chilean ". Their position in-between the two categories is an important starting point for policies and discourse to expand notions of citizenship and belonging.

Mobilities, 2018

This article presents narratives and tropes of transnational tourism from a less considered persp... more This article presents narratives and tropes of transnational tourism from a less considered perspective: rural migrant-origin villagers of Central Java. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cilacap and Yogyakarta, I analyze how and why some former temporary labor migrants depict their typically harsh experiences in terms of tourism and leisure. Addressing the tendency in current research to approach labor migration and tourism as mutually exclusive or unrelated class categories and experiences, I consider the ways in which former migrants and non-migrant villagers evaluate or identify labor migration in terms of gender, class, religious, and ethno-national subjectivities associated with " tourist " and/or " migrant " categories. Popular and commercial imaginations of leisure travel and tourism importantly shape the subjectivities and positionalities of precarious labor migrants. Foregrounding the relations between tourism and labor migration reveals the multi-scalar ways in which associated discourses and infrastructures of both mutually shape and constitute global socioeconomic inequalities.

In contrast to current research focusing on how migrant parents provide care for their 'left-behi... more In contrast to current research focusing on how migrant parents provide care for their 'left-behind' children, this article highlights how Indonesian adolescent women also migrate (or stay) in order to provide care for their families. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted mainly between 2014 and 2015 in Central Javanese migrant-origin villages, this article discusses how opportunities for transnational labour migration affect young unmarried women's roles as 'dutiful daughters' in diverse ways. By analysing how the (im)mobilities of three young women are mutually shaped by diverse expectations to care for their families, I highlight that care is always relational, showing that the distinction between care-givers and care-receivers is less evident than currently assumed in migration studies. Closer examination of how young persons mutually negotiate mobility and parent-child care expectations brings into focus the new forms of agency, power and vulnerability that they encounter in migration and migrant-origin contexts.

This article considers how and why somen non-migrants partially inhabit migrant subjectivities. B... more This article considers how and why somen non-migrants partially inhabit migrant subjectivities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Central Java, Indonesia, I describe experiences of those who embarked on pre-departure migration processes, but failed to leave the country. Men are often victims of fraud; women typically ran away from the confines of training centers. Upon being redirected away from border-spaces of airports and recruitment centers, they typically self-identify and are perceived by kin and neighbors as “former” transnational migrants. I analyze how migration infrastructure—intersecting institutions, agents, and technologies— produces such subjectivities in-between conventional migrant and non-migrant categories. These positions in between leaving and staying illuminate the infrastructural conditions that both enable, constrain, and mediate transnational mobilities. These cases of non-departure demonstrate the expansive social and spatial effects of migration infrastructure beyond the facilitation of transnational movement. Such less considered (im)mobilities of non-migrants point to diverse ways migration institutions and agents mediate the circulation of persons between and within national borders.

Applied Mobilities, 2023

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2023

Critical Sociology, 2022

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2023

Crime, Law & Social Change, 2022

Ethnicities, 2021

Revista Historia de Historia Social y de Las Mentalidades, 2020

Citizenship Studies, 2020

Asian Ethnicity, 2020

Journal of Chinese Overseas, 2020

Material Religion The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief , 2020

Global Networks, 2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Journal of Latin American Geography, 2018

International Migration Review, 2017

Mobilities, 2018

Si Somos Americanos, 2020

En la última década los estudios acerca de la convivencia y la multiculturalidad cotidiana han co... more En la última década los estudios acerca de la convivencia y la multiculturalidad cotidiana han cobrado renovada importancia en los estudios étnicos, migratorios y urbanos. Esta entrevista recoge las voces de la investigadora australiana Amanda Wise, y su par singapurense Selvaraj Velayutham, quienes en solitario y en colaboración han generado notables aportes para el estudio de la experiencia de vivir juntos a través de la diferencia cultural en contextos urbanos diversos. En esta conversación, junto con discutir su marco conceptual, se recogen aspectos relativos a su formación, aproximación interdisciplinaria, y su trabajo colaborativo y comparado. Además, ambos esbozan reflexiones iniciales en torno a las particularidades de los procesos de diversidad y convivencia en la ciudad de Santiago; reflexiones basadas en observaciones y discusiones llevadas a cabo durante una estadía académica en Chile.

Revista Rumbos TS, 2019

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo es académica en la Universidad del Sur de California, ampliamente reco... more Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo es académica en la Universidad del Sur de California, ampliamente reconocida por su trabajo en migración, género, Latino Studies, integración de inmigrantes y trabajo informal en la ciudad. Cuenta con importantes reconocimientos a su carrera incluyendo la Distinción a la Carrera Académica otorgada por la Sección de Migración Internacional, de la Asociación Americana de Sociología (2015) y la Distinción a la Carrera Académica Julián Samora otorgada por la Sección Latino Studies de la misma asociación (2018).

En sus investigaciones Pierrette ha dado voz y visibilizado las contribuciones de las y los inmigrantes latinas y latinos, buscando comprender los procesos sociales que acontecen en sus lugares de trabajo, barrios, hogares y familias. Pierrette tiene un especial interés en la textura de la vida cotidiana, particularmente en cómo contar la vida de las personas a través de entrevistas y desde la etnografía, contextualizado sus experiencias en términos históricos y macroestructurales. Crecientemente ha girado su interés a “lugar” (como lente empírico y categoría de análisis) para comprender cómo habitamos el mundo, generamos un sentido de pertenencia y hogar.

Pierrette sigue expandiendo su trabajo y su contribución al campo de los estudios migratorios. En sus últimas investigaciones ha abordado la relación entre el estudio de las masculinidades, construcción de lugar y hogar (place-making y home-making) y lo que ella denomina “sociología de los jardines” (2010, 2014, 2017a, 2017b). En el contexto de su visita a Chile como investigadora Asociada a la Red Internacional “Migración, Etnicidad y Espacio: Aproximaciones Críticas Desde la Etnografía” (MES Network) , no quisimos dejar pasar la oportunidad de entrevistarla. Estábamos particularmente interesadas en conocer más acerca de la conexión de su trabajo con su trayectoria personal, sus actuales focos de investigación y los recientes giros en su trabajo, así como también los desafíos y oportunidades que a su parecer enfrentan hoy los cientistas sociales – particularmente etnógrafos trabajando en el campo de los estudios étnicos y migratorios – en consideración del contexto global actual.

American Chinese Restaurants Society, Culture and Consumption, edited by Jenny Banh and Haiming Liu (Routledge), 2019

Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even death... more Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the origin community and provides a fascinating look at how gender, faith, and shame shape these decisions to migrate. Villagers evaluate men and women’s migrations differently, leading to different ideas about which kinds of human or financial flows should be encouraged and which should be discouraged or even criminalized. Despite routine and well-documented instances of Indonesian migrant labor exploitation, some villagers still emphasize that a migrant's success or failure ultimately depends on that individual’s morality, fate, and destiny. Indonesian villagers construct strategies for avoiding migration-related risks which are closely linked to faith and belief in supernatural agency. These strategies shape the flow of migration from the country and help to ensure the continued faith Indonesian people have in migration as an act of promise and hope.

British Journal of Chinese Studies, 2022

This position paper highlights the emergence of "Asian Chilean" identities and "anti-Asian racism... more This position paper highlights the emergence of "Asian Chilean" identities and "anti-Asian racism" discourses during #StopAsianHate social media campaigns in Chile. We argue that while panethnicity can critically respond to and visibilise the shared racialisation of ethnic Chinese and Asian persons in South American contexts, public discussions must also distinguish between ethnic Chinese persons, Chinese-owned private and state enterprises, and the PRC government, as well as highlighting the diversity within these groups and others often considered as "Chinese" in Latin America. Both approaches are necessary to apprehend the multifaceted implications of geopolitical shifts in the region without promoting biased anti-or pro-China attitudes.

Autoctonía. Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, 2018

Actualmente en América Latina el fenómeno de la migración ha cobrado gran interés en el ámbito po... more Actualmente en América Latina el fenómeno de la migración ha cobrado gran interés en el ámbito político y académico. Si bien, históricamente han existido grupos de población que emigraban hacia países de fuera de la región -principalmente Estados Unidos y España-, en el último tiempo observamos un incremento de los flujos migratorios intrarregionales. Según estimaciones de la CEPAL (para el año 2015), en América Latina y el Caribe vivían casi ocho millones de personas migrantes. Los principales países receptores de las migraciones serían Argentina, Venezuela, México y Brasil, aunque en el último tiempo se han integrado nuevos países, como Chile, que ha comenzado a recibir población migrante.

BCN Boletin Asia Pacifico, 2021

Le Monde Diplomatique- Edicion chilena, 2021

La red internacional ‘Migración, etnicidad y espacio’ (MES Network) y el diplomado Migraciones, I... more La red internacional ‘Migración, etnicidad y espacio’ (MES Network) y el diplomado Migraciones, Integración y Diversidad Cultural de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado invitan a investigadores en ciencias
sociales, particularmente aquellos en etapa inicial, a enviar resúmenes de ponencias para el presente seminario a desarrollarse el día 29 de Noviembre del 2018 (detalles en el doc adjunto).

El seminario contará con la participación de Pierrette Hondagneu (University of Southern California) y Amanda Wise (Macquarie University), ambas académicas de gran trayectoria en estas temáticas, quienes estarán a cargo de las conferencias magistrales.

Fechas y plazos
Recepción de resúmenes: 7 de Septiembre, 2018
Selección de ponencias: 28 de septiembre
Seminario: 29 de noviembre

Los postulantes deberán enviar un resumen de 500 palabras, seguido por una breve biografía (máximo 200 palabras) que indique grado académico, disciplina y afiliación. Ello con el objeto de combinar la selección de investigadores jóvenes y senior y promover interdisciplinariedad. Ambos documentos deberán ser enviados al correo mesnetwork.priem2018@gmail.com.