Autonomous Strategies of Migrant Resistance to the Pandemic's Repercussions

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ID4500423
AuthorsNanette Liberona Concha (0000-0002-0980-7519), Marioly Corona Ramírez (0000-0002-2846-5817), Cristián Doña-Reveco (0000-0002-6596-7154)
Year2025
Volume52
Issue1
Pages53-75
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x241312111
OpenAlexW4406243185
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

This article addresses the economic and political repercussions of the pandemic on the migrant populations in Iquique, Chile, comparing the experiences of Bolivian and Venezuelan migrants. We assess the forms of resistance they developed to survive the economic, social, and health crises associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic, which each group confronted in a different manner. We approached this from the viewpoint of the autonomy of migration and conducted participant observations and in-depth interviews with people of both nationalities using the framework of collaborative ethnography. In addition, we systematized and categorized relevant press articles to contextualize and trace the evolution of the pandemic and its impact on these populations. The research reveals the racism in what the press included and omitted, particularly with regard to the forms of resistance carried out by migrants, which appear to be the only way of confronting precarity and abandonment. En este artículo se abordan las repercusiones económicas y políticas de la pandemia en la población migrante en Iquique, Chile, comparando las experiencias de las poblaciones boliviana y venezolana. Interesa valorar las resistencias que surgieron para sobrevivir a la crisis económica, social y sanitaria asociada con la pandemia de COVID-19, que han enfrentado ambos grupos de diferente manera, a partir del enfoque de la autonomía de las migraciones. Se realizaron observaciones participante y entrevistas en profundidad a personas de ambas nacionalidades, en el marco de una etnografía colaborativa. Además, se sistematizaron y categorizaron artículos de prensa relacionados con la pandemia para contextualizar, demostrar su evolución e impacto en estas poblaciones. Ese análisis permite identificar el racismo de lo que la prensa expone y omite, particularmente las resistencias migrantes que aparecen como única forma de enfrentar la precariedad y el abandono

Biology · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Migrant workers · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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