Tráfico de migrantes en las fronteras del norte de Chile: irregularización migratoria y sus resistencias

Concha, Nanette Liberona; Romero, Mileska; Salinas, Sius-geng; Veloso, Karen

doi:10.18800/derechopucp.202202.001

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“…In this case, we can observe an increase in the number of people entering via non-authorised border crossings, accompanied by a rise in migrant smuggling and collective expulsions (Liberona et al, 2022b). This is the first element of the reconfiguration of the border regime.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The sanitary closure of the border has had wide-ranging repercussions on the mobility of these two migrant groups, although this does not mean that there has been no mobility. In this case, we can observe an increase in the number of people entering via non-authorised border crossings, accompanied by a rise in migrant smuggling and collective expulsions (Liberona et al, 2022b). This is the first element of the reconfiguration of the border regime.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The situation of the Venezuelan population has been quite different, as they have become the most rejected national group in the continent. The border closures in response to COVID-19 simply reinforced the administrative measures that had already been implemented to prevent the entry of Venezuelan immigrants into Chile, such as the Democratic Accountability Visa (DAV) and the Consular Tourist Visa (CTV), both of which are very difficult to obtain (Liberona et al, 2022b). Instead of resorting to applying through the Law of Asylum, considering the humanitarian emergency from which they are fleeing, they simply prolonged the humanitarian emergency at the borders of Chile with Peru and Bolivia in 2019.…”

Section: Repercussions On the Mobility Of Venezuelan Nationalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Chile, in particular, 2020 will be remembered as the year the Congress debated and voted for the new Law of Migration, without the participation of the people it concerns (Liberona et al, 2022a(Liberona et al, , 2022b. At the beginning of the pandemic, President Piñera requested extreme urgency for a parliamentary discussion on the migration bill that he had presented at the beginning of his mandate in 2018.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, these borderlands were overwhelmed by a huge migratory flow, consisting of families with children of different ages and older adults. Moreover, the health of many people was seriously affected by the extreme climatic conditions of the Andean highlands, as well as the long journey, often by foot, which they had endured across the continent (Liberona et al, 2022b).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Economic and mobility repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chile–Bolivia border

Concha

Rivera

2023

Politics

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This article analyzes how the pandemic caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted international migration. In particular, we compare the mobility and economic repercussions faced by Bolivian and Venezuelan migrants. We conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with migrants who requested legal and social support and advice provided by the Open Assembly of Migrants and Pro-Migrants of Tarapacá, Chile (AMPRO), an organisation dedicated to defending migrant rights. The Bolivian interviewees worked in Chile before the pandemic in the city of Iquique (close to the Bolivian border). The Venezuelan interviewees are undocumented people in transit who entered Chile during the pandemic. Through this comparison, we describe the economic repercussions on the everyday life, mobility, and survival strategies of people in transit, transboundary workers, and migrants with transnational families, and reveal a realignment of Chile’s border regime that benefits post-pandemic capitalism. Furthermore, we clarify how the health restrictions implemented due to the pandemic have favoured the reconfiguration of the border regime imposed in Chile, through a racist immigration policy based on the control and management of migration, leading to a greater irregularization of migration.

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 98%

Section: Repercussions On the Mobility Of Venezuelan Nationalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Economic and mobility repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chile–Bolivia border

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Rivera

2023

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En tránsito por el norte de Chile: Desplazamiento forzado de población venezolana bajo el control fronterizo y sanitario durante la pandemia por COVID‐19 (2020‐2021)

Liberona Concha,

Rodríguez,

Rivera

et al. 2024

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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In 2020, as a result of border closures due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, thousands of forcibly displaced migrant families, mainly of Venezuelan origin, entered Chile through unauthorized crossings. In response, the Government activated administrative measures to restrict mobility and promoted the militarization of the border. Although these measures did not limit people's entry, they were threatened by illegal collective expulsions and by a “humanitarian” intervention that aggravated the crisis. In this context, we explore through a collaborative ethnography, how the control of cross‐border mobility is linked to and reinforced by the health control of this population, threatened by the international border order. Specifically, we illustrate the effects of transit density on displaced persons, based on the management of the “migratory crisis” through the “Colchane Plan,” and we analyze the humanitarian response as a form of government that invisibilizes and naturalizes serious consequences on the health of bodies in mobility.

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Impacto diferencial de la COVID-19 sobre la pobreza e ingresos de inmigrantes y nativos: el caso de Chile

Soto-Alvarado,

Morollón,

Gil-Alonso

2024

REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum.

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Resumen Se analiza la evolución de las condiciones socioeconómicas del conjunto de la población inmigrante y de tres colectivos con mayor representación -venezolanos, peruanos y haitianos- en comparación con la población chilena, en cuanto a ingresos económicos y situación de pobreza entre los años 2015 y 2022 a fin de observar el impacto de la pandemia COVID-19 en cada grupo. Para ello, se realizó un análisis estadístico descriptivo e inferencial utilizando los microdatos de la encuesta CASEN de los años 2015, 2017, 2020 y 2022. Los principales resultados muestran que la población chilena y migrante fueron afectadas socioeconómicamente en forma desigual por la pandemia, y que, en el caso de venezolanos, haitianos y peruanos, ya habían sufrido una disminución de sus condiciones socioeconómicas previas a la pandemia, pero la situación empeoró con la llegada de esta y la implementación de medidas gubernamentales para combatir su expansión.

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Tráfico de migrantes en las fronteras del norte de Chile: irregularización migratoria y sus resistencias

Cited by 6 publications

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Economic and mobility repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chile–Bolivia border

Economic and mobility repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chile–Bolivia border

En tránsito por el norte de Chile: Desplazamiento forzado de población venezolana bajo el control fronterizo y sanitario durante la pandemia por COVID‐19 (2020‐2021)

Impacto diferencial de la COVID-19 sobre la pobreza e ingresos de inmigrantes y nativos: el caso de Chile

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