Trayectorias migratorias. Entre trayectorias directas, azarosas y nómades

Yasna Contreras

doi:10.5354/0719-5370.2019.55729

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Historically, the territories have been configured from the arrival of subjects and families of different origins whose traditional causes of mobility are associated with the search for employment and / or better life expectations, contemplating migratory trajectories that allude to spaces of origin and destination. This article reflects on the concept of migratory trajectory and questions how the trajectory is constructed and what are the strategies to which the migrant subject resorts. It is postulated that the migratory trajectory includes the articulation of all the nodes that explain the exit of one place, the transit through another and the place of arrival. The trajectory breaks with the traditional idea that migrant subjects leave a place of destination and arrive at another of supposed reception. The reception condition is put in tension in two ways: many of the trajectories do not coincide with the original projects of the subjects, rather, they currently live in territories that were part of negotiations on the road, and secondly, some are subjected to racist speeches and practices which questions the term host. The discussion arises from the analysis of ten in-depth interviews conducted with Latin American and Caribbean immigrants residing in northern Chile. The decisions behind each movement are analyzed; the strategies and the sense that they assign to each node that composes their migratory trajectory. The specified analysis is the construction of three types of trajectories defined here as direct, azarous and nomadic. From these approaches, the need to raise a critique of immigration policy is considered, while recognizing the condition in which a subject arrives; the racialization with the load, and even, the violence to which they are exposed during their route since they are not certain subjects of law Keywords: immigrant, migrant, mobility, trajectory.

Migratory trajectory. Direct, azarous and nomads trajectory

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