C Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 55029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academy of Christian Humanism University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9879-5144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unmet needs and barriers to navigating care services in the low- and middle-income families with young children in Singapore: A qualitative study
Our analysis assembled an objective picture of challenges and strengths in relation to the health status of caregivers and their children from low- and middle-income families. Good interpersonal relationships with families, improved health literacy, readily available competent healthcare professionals, better access to social services and financial assistance, and enhanced health information technology help overcome challenges faced by low- to mi…
Becoming Nikkei: Creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent
The term Nikkei emerged in the Americas, post-Second World War, to describe persons of Japanese descent living abroad. Based on an ethnographic study with Chileans of Japanese descent, we propose that Nikkei can be productively understood as an ethno-regional identity. Building on and departing from scholarship that focuses on Nikkei identities in Peru and Brazil in national/global/diasporic terms, we highlight the role of Nikkei persons and grou…
The moral economy of citizenship: Migrants' aspirations for belonging in downtown Santiago, Chile
Migration rates have dramatically increased in Chile over the past decade, which has led to a process of diversification in different neighborhoods of Santiago. Migrants are often subjected to practices of residential discrimination, forcing them to access housing in precarious, inner-city tenements in areas with rising rates of crime and violence. Drawing on participant observation conducted in Barrio Yungay in Santiago and 24 semi-structured in…
Hostile friendships: Dynamics of care and conflict between migrant women in Chile
Friendships between low-wage migrant workers can provide mutual support and information, as well as generate suspicion, jealousy, and competition. Indonesian and Filipino migrant women in Chile maintain counter-intuitive social relations where, despite never fully resolving ongoing conflicts over money, men, or reputations, women continue to attend to new emergencies and provide significant economic, practical, or emotional support to one another…
I was still the weirdo but now cool: The impact of Hallyu on affective experiences of racialization among Chileans of Korean descent
Managing the Long-Term Effects of Psychological Abuse on (Im)migrant Domestic Workers
We can't demand anything: Migrants' practices of accommodation and urban incorporation in an autoconstructed settlement in Santiago, Chile
Migrant populations globally are often subjected to explicit forms of housing discrimination based on their race, nationality, migration status, and social class. In Chile, due to the dramatic increase in rent prices and a worsening housing crisis, migrants have turned to autoconstructing their own houses in campamentos (squatter settlements) in recent years. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork, we show that the campamentos autoconstru…
Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: A legal culture perspective
“They’d Better Really Treat Her Nice”: Gendered Dynamics of Care and Control in Filipina Migrant-Broker Relations in Chile
Patchwork infrastructures: Indonesian and Filipino multinational migratory trajectories to Chile
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 …
"Dinámicas de (in)visibilidad de personas "chilenas-asiáticas
A nivel global, diversos movimientos sociales surgieron en respuesta al aumento de la xenofobia en el marco de la pandemia de COVID-19. Para el caso específico de Chile, fue posible identificar la aparición de una comunidad chileno-asiática en redes sociales, en el marco del movimiento #StopAsianHate. Este artículo aborda la aparición de esta comunidad a partir del análisis de diez cuentas de Instagram de personas chilenas-asiáticas, e informado …
Compañerismo: Care and Power in Affective Labor Relations
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…
Knowledge building: Aligning education with needs for knowledge creation in the digital age
El imaginario de lo chino en las revistas magazinescas chilenas de principios del siglo XX
El aniversario de los cien años de Independencia de Chile, en 1910, remarcó el triunfo de la libertad nacional para el país, pero también un desafío para la modernización y la construcción de identidad. El mayor desarrollo de los medios de comunicación y la opinión pública se combinó con debates intelectuales por discutir una identidad chilena, proceso que reveló las tendencias e influencias sobre la concepción de lo otro. En ese contexto encontr…
The Politics of Identity, Ethnography and the Link between Academia and Society: An Interview with Claire Alexander
In this conversation, Claire Alexander discusses the overlap between her social research and biographical trajectories, showing us how shifts in academic work are linked to broader transformations, in this case, linked to the politics of identity, ethnicity, and race in the United Kingdom. Alexander also tells us about the meaning and value of ethnographic work, including her experience of “revisiting” places and maintaining links with her resear…
Dynamics of indigenous identification and performance in the early twentieth century: The life and performances of Chief Caupolican as Mapuche and immigrant (1876–1968)
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 self-identification and media success within the broader context of ongoing pan-indigenous activism in the country…
Many-faced orientalism: Racism and xenophobia in a time of the novel coronavirus in Chile
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 re…
Permanent migrants and temporary citizens: Multinational Chinese mobilities in the Americas
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. …
Chinese migrants' spatial politics of belonging, identity, and citizenship in Santiago de Chile
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…
Cleaning City Skies
The national child protection alert system in New Zealand: A prospective multi-centre study of inter-rater agreement
The New Zealand health system assigns a unique identifier to every user of health services. The National Child Protection Alert System enables an alert to be placed against this identifier, making child protection information available to health providers throughout the country. Local health-based multi-disciplinary teams receive requests for an alert and decide whether an alert should be placed, but the proportion of requests accepted for an ale…
Narratives of exile twenty years on: Long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
In response to Indonesia’s 1998 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 di…
Questioning the Conditional Visibility of the Chinese: (Non)Normative Representations of China and Chineseness in Chilean Cultural Productions
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 Ch…
Between the Sacred and Secular: The Role of Chinese Popular Deities in Creating Thirdspaces in Chinese Restaurants of Santiago de Chile
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. …
Negotiating precarious labour relations: Dynamics of vulnerability and reciprocity between Chinese employers and their migrant workers in Santiago, Chile
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 re…
Many-faced orientalism: Racism and xenophobia in a time of the novel coronavirus in Chile
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 re…
Making community under shared conditions of insecurity: The negotiation of ethnic borders in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood in Santiago, Chile
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-e…
The discourse of powerlessness and repression: Life stories of domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong
In migrant-destination countries of East and Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, abuse and violence against low-wage migrant workers are regularly reported in national media. The Disco
Not Always 'Left-Behind: Indonesian Adolescent Women Negotiating Transnational Mobility, Filial Piety and Care
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 unmarri…
Contrasting Return Migrant Entrepreneurship Experiences in Javanese Villages
In between leaving and being left behind: Mediating the mobilities and immobilities of Indonesian non-migrants
In this article, I consider how and why some non-migrants partially inhabit migrant subjectivities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Central Java, Indonesia, I describe the experiences of those who embarked on pre-departure migration processes, but failed to leave the country. Men were often victims of fraud; women typically ran away from the confines of training centres. When redirected away from the border spaces of airports and rec…
Questioning the Conditional Visibility of the Chinese: (Non)Normative Representations of China and Chineseness in Chilean Cultural Productions
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 Ch…
Compañerismo: Care and Power in Affective Labor Relations
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…
Permanent migrants and temporary citizens: Multinational Chinese mobilities in the Americas
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. …
The Second Generation in Chile: Negotiating Identities, Rights, and Public Policy
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…
Chinese migrants' spatial politics of belonging, identity, and citizenship in Santiago de Chile
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…
The moral economy of citizenship: Migrants' aspirations for belonging in downtown Santiago, Chile
Migration rates have dramatically increased in Chile over the past decade, which has led to a process of diversification in different neighborhoods of Santiago. Migrants are often subjected to practices of residential discrimination, forcing them to access housing in precarious, inner-city tenements in areas with rising rates of crime and violence. Drawing on participant observation conducted in Barrio Yungay in Santiago and 24 semi-structured in…
Hostile friendships: Dynamics of care and conflict between migrant women in Chile
Friendships between low-wage migrant workers can provide mutual support and information, as well as generate suspicion, jealousy, and competition. Indonesian and Filipino migrant women in Chile maintain counter-intuitive social relations where, despite never fully resolving ongoing conflicts over money, men, or reputations, women continue to attend to new emergencies and provide significant economic, practical, or emotional support to one another…
We can't demand anything: Migrants' practices of accommodation and urban incorporation in an autoconstructed settlement in Santiago, Chile
Migrant populations globally are often subjected to explicit forms of housing discrimination based on their race, nationality, migration status, and social class. In Chile, due to the dramatic increase in rent prices and a worsening housing crisis, migrants have turned to autoconstructing their own houses in campamentos (squatter settlements) in recent years. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork, we show that the campamentos autoconstru…
Patchwork infrastructures: Indonesian and Filipino multinational migratory trajectories to Chile
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 …
"Dinámicas de (in)visibilidad de personas "chilenas-asiáticas
A nivel global, diversos movimientos sociales surgieron en respuesta al aumento de la xenofobia en el marco de la pandemia de COVID-19. Para el caso específico de Chile, fue posible identificar la aparición de una comunidad chileno-asiática en redes sociales, en el marco del movimiento #StopAsianHate. Este artículo aborda la aparición de esta comunidad a partir del análisis de diez cuentas de Instagram de personas chilenas-asiáticas, e informado …
Narratives of exile twenty years on: Long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
In response to Indonesia’s 1998 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 di…
Clock-Face Drawing, Reading and Setting Tests in the Screening of Dementia in Chinese Elderly Adults
Comprehensive neuropsychological batteries focus on the subtle cognitive deficits in dementia, but a brief screening instrument is also of immense practical value. As the clock-drawing test encompasses a number of cognitive domains frequently disturbed by the dementing process, it is considered to be a suitable screening instrument for the disorder. We documented the usefulness of a new scoring method of the clock-drawing test for screening of de…
P2-494 Differential outcome and treatment rates for peripheral vascular disease in the black, Asian and White British population: Secondary analysis of English hospital data 2003–2009
Introduction Peripheral vascular disease is under researched with no outcome data for the UK. It has the same underlying pathology and treatment modalities as coronary heart disease and is just as preventable. Aim To document treatment and outcomes for lower limb peripheral vascular disease in those aged 50–84 by ethnic group. Method Secondary analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (2003–2009) patient data with 77 million admission episodes. Age…
Now Walks Like Others’: A Preliminary Enquiry Into the Northampton Crippled Children’s Fund
Over recent years scholarly interest in the history of childhood, child health and disability has developed and intensified. However, there are still considerable areas which have not been subjected to extensive historical enquiry, such as the treatment and management of ‘crippled’ children in the UK during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A key opinion in this study is that of Borsay who has stated that the care of poor ‘crippled children…
Contrasting Return Migrant Entrepreneurship Experiences in Javanese Villages
The discourse of powerlessness and repression: Life stories of domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong
In migrant-destination countries of East and Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, abuse and violence against low-wage migrant workers are regularly reported in national media. The Disco
Migrantes como víctimas y héroes nacionales: Cuestionando la migración como camino al desarrollo en Indonesia
This article examines the relationship between the Indonesian government's discourse on "migrant-victims" and the promotion of migration as a pathway to development. The discussion revolves around two dominant representations of Indonesian migrants: as national heroes that contribute to the country's economic development and as victims of labor exploitation. In analyzing speeches of state representatives and publications by local media and NGOs, …
The Second Generation in Chile: Negotiating Identities, Rights, and Public Policy
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…
In between leaving and being left behind: Mediating the mobilities and immobilities of Indonesian non-migrants
In this article, I consider how and why some non-migrants partially inhabit migrant subjectivities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Central Java, Indonesia, I describe the experiences of those who embarked on pre-departure migration processes, but failed to leave the country. Men were often victims of fraud; women typically ran away from the confines of training centres. When redirected away from the border spaces of airports and rec…
Not Always 'Left-Behind: Indonesian Adolescent Women Negotiating Transnational Mobility, Filial Piety and Care
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 unmarri…
Presentación Dosier “Migraciones en América Latina”
The politics of leisure and labor mobilities: Discourses of tourism and transnational migration in Central Java, Indonesia
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 mutu…
Negotiating precarious labour relations: Dynamics of vulnerability and reciprocity between Chinese employers and their migrant workers in Santiago, Chile
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 re…
Cleaning City Skies
The national child protection alert system in New Zealand: A prospective multi-centre study of inter-rater agreement
The New Zealand health system assigns a unique identifier to every user of health services. The National Child Protection Alert System enables an alert to be placed against this identifier, making child protection information available to health providers throughout the country. Local health-based multi-disciplinary teams receive requests for an alert and decide whether an alert should be placed, but the proportion of requests accepted for an ale…
Narratives of exile twenty years on: Long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
In response to Indonesia’s 1998 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 di…
Questioning the Conditional Visibility of the Chinese: (Non)Normative Representations of China and Chineseness in Chilean Cultural Productions
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 Ch…
Between the Sacred and Secular: The Role of Chinese Popular Deities in Creating Thirdspaces in Chinese Restaurants of Santiago de Chile
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. …
Formación interdisciplinaria, colaboración y mirada comparada en el estudio de la convivencia y el multiculturalismo cotidiano: Una entrevista a Amanda Wise y Selvaraj Velayutham
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 …
Making community under shared conditions of insecurity: The negotiation of ethnic borders in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood in Santiago, Chile
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-e…
Knowledge building: Aligning education with needs for knowledge creation in the digital age
El imaginario de lo chino en las revistas magazinescas chilenas de principios del siglo XX
El aniversario de los cien años de Independencia de Chile, en 1910, remarcó el triunfo de la libertad nacional para el país, pero también un desafío para la modernización y la construcción de identidad. El mayor desarrollo de los medios de comunicación y la opinión pública se combinó con debates intelectuales por discutir una identidad chilena, proceso que reveló las tendencias e influencias sobre la concepción de lo otro. En ese contexto encontr…
The Politics of Identity, Ethnography and the Link between Academia and Society: An Interview with Claire Alexander
In this conversation, Claire Alexander discusses the overlap between her social research and biographical trajectories, showing us how shifts in academic work are linked to broader transformations, in this case, linked to the politics of identity, ethnicity, and race in the United Kingdom. Alexander also tells us about the meaning and value of ethnographic work, including her experience of “revisiting” places and maintaining links with her resear…
Dynamics of indigenous identification and performance in the early twentieth century: The life and performances of Chief Caupolican as Mapuche and immigrant (1876–1968)
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 self-identification and media success within the broader context of ongoing pan-indigenous activism in the country…
Many-faced orientalism: Racism and xenophobia in a time of the novel coronavirus in Chile
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 re…
Permanent migrants and temporary citizens: Multinational Chinese mobilities in the Americas
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. …
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