Latin American Women in South-Central Chile: Labor, Family, and Citizenship within Contexts of Immigrant Exclusion

This article examines the trajectories of immigrant women in south-central Chile from an intersectional perspective, drawing on interviews conducted between 2022 and 2024 in Santiago, Concepción, and Maule. It analyzes how they navigate labor precarity, institutional exclusion, and transnational care responsibilities, while also enacting situated agency, community support networks, and grassroots organizing. Moving beyond victimizing narratives, the article highlights their central role in social reproduction and their active engagement in claiming rights, recognition, and belonging. It engages with theories of differentiated citizenship, autonomy of immigration, and immigrant corporeality, showing how these women sustain territories, relationships, and political practices from the margins of the state. In contexts of exclusion and control, they build collective ways of living that challenge conventional boundaries between public and private life, offering critical insights into citizenship and social justice from immigrant experiences. Este artículo examina las trayectorias de mujeres migrantes en el centro-sur de Chile desde una perspectiva interseccional, con base en entrevistas realizadas entre 2022 y 2024 en Santiago, Concepción y Maule. Analiza cómo enfrentan la precariedad laboral, la exclusión institucional y las responsabilidades de cuidado transnacional, al tiempo que despliegan formas de agencia situada, redes de apoyo y organización comunitaria. Lejos de representaciones victimistas, se destaca su protagonismo en la reproducción social y su rol activo en la disputa por derechos, reconocimiento y pertenencia. El texto dialoga con teorías sobre ciudadanía diferenciada, autonomía de la migración y corporalidades migrantes, explorando cómo las mujeres sostienen territorios, relaciones y prácticas políticas desde los márgenes del Estado. En contextos de exclusión y control, construyen formas de vida colectiva que cuestionan las fronteras entre lo público y lo privado, y que invitan a repensar críticamente la ciudadanía y la justicia social desde las experiencias migrantes.

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Latin American Perspectives
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2026-07-16
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x261469498
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Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics
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Latin American Women in South-Central Chile: Labor, Family, and Citizenship within Contexts of Immigrant Exclusion

Ricardo Greene, Nicolás Gissi Barbieri
Latin American Perspectives
Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics
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Latin American Women in South-Central Chile: Labor, Family, and Citizenship within Contexts of Immigrant Exclusion

Ricardo Greene, Nicolás Gissi Barbieri
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Abstract

This article examines the trajectories of immigrant women in south-central Chile from an intersectional perspective, drawing on interviews conducted between 2022 and 2024 in Santiago, Concepción, and Maule. It analyzes how they navigate labor precarity, institutional exclusion, and transnational care responsibilities, while also enacting situated agency, community support networks, and grassroots organizing. Moving beyond victimizing narratives, the article highlights their central role in social reproduction and their active engagement in claiming rights, recognition, and belonging. It engages with theories of differentiated citizenship, autonomy of immigration, and immigrant corporeality, showing how these women sustain territories, relationships, and political practices from the margins of the state. In contexts of exclusion and control, they build collective ways of living that challenge conventional boundaries between public and private life, offering critical insights into citizenship and social justice from immigrant experiences. Este artículo examina las trayectorias de mujeres migrantes en el centro-sur de Chile desde una perspectiva interseccional, con base en entrevistas realizadas entre 2022 y 2024 en Santiago, Concepción y Maule. Analiza cómo enfrentan la precariedad laboral, la exclusión institucional y las responsabilidades de cuidado transnacional, al tiempo que despliegan formas de agencia situada, redes de apoyo y organización comunitaria. Lejos de representaciones victimistas, se destaca su protagonismo en la reproducción social y su rol activo en la disputa por derechos, reconocimiento y pertenencia. El texto dialoga con teorías sobre ciudadanía diferenciada, autonomía de la migración y corporalidades migrantes, explorando cómo las mujeres sostienen territorios, relaciones y prácticas políticas desde los márgenes del Estado. En contextos de exclusión y control, construyen formas de vida colectiva que cuestionan las fronteras entre lo público y lo privado, y que invitan a repensar críticamente la ciudadanía y la justicia social desde las experiencias migrantes.

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