People from low socioeconomic strata, indigenous people and migrants have experienced exclusion in neoliberal Chile between centuries ago and today. The Haitian community has suffered discrimination because of its skin color, as well as its nationality and poverty, tending to be segregated, residential and occupationally. It is rather a hetero-segregation, from the Chilean neorracism with the Afro-descendant population, generating a partial Haitian immobility in Santiago that has caused thinking and imagining the return as an alternative to the lack of recognition. However, the biographical spaces of Haitian migrants seek the achievement of a good life also through establishing themselves in Chile, socially organizing and improving their educational levels and working conditions. In these pages we wanted to cross the biographies (as an anthropological tool and lens) with the concrete trajectories of Haitian people living today in the plural, unequal and segregated Santiago, based on a qualitative/ethnographic study.
Keywords:
migrants, recognition, exclusion, haitians, Santiago
Rodríguez, J. C., & Gissi, N. (2019). Biographies, borders and transits: Haitian community and lack of recognition in the plural Chilean society. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (39), 20–37. Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/53719
