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Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile
The arrival of Afro-descendant migrants, mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has led to the emergence of new discourses on migration,...
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The experience of the irreligious conversion: analysis of the spiritual transition toward skepticism from traditional religions in young adults residing in Santiago, Chile
This study investigates the narratives and meanings that individuals sustain as to the reason for their irreligious conversion, denoting the role...
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Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America: evidence from Santiago de Chile
Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning...
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The Changing Geography of Homosexuality in Santiago de Chile: Is the Individual a New Space for Analysis?
Based on a comparative study carried out in 2011 and 2020, this chapter shows the changing geography of homosexuality in Santiago de Chile. Using a...
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Preserving a Sense of Family: Parents’ and Children’s Ritualized Transnational Family Practices amongst Colombian Migrants to Santiago, Chile
Colombian families with migrant family members have experienced significant changes in their structure and internal organization generated by...
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Santiago, the Non-city? Destruction, Creation, and Precariousness of Verticalized Space
This chapter situates urbicideUrbicide as an intentional process that requires the devastation of the public, the destruction of the private and...
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Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile
Immigrant communities in Chile face barriers to their integration, in the form of discrimination and social exclusion. Psychology of liberation...
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Peripheral Citizenship: Autoconstruction and Migration in Santiago, Chile
In cities across the Global South, poor people’s demands for housing have resulted in widespread processes of “autoconstruction.” This concept...
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Indigenous Representation in Chile
Post-transitional democracy has not been able to address the different political necessities of Indigenous peoples in Chile, relegating them to...
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Find Your Face: The Case of Gender Sociocultural Transformations within the Art of Drag Queens in Chile
The art of drag queens has been transformed over the last thirty years in Chile. The change in the material conditions of its production and the...
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Transnational Professional Mothers and Family Care Dilemmas in Santiago and Berlin
This chapter relates the migration of Latin American professional mothers to the practices of reconciling childcare. I present a discussion about...
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Anatomy of an Urbicide. Social Housing in Santiago 1980–2006
The article describes the case of an urbicideUrbicide, the social and urban effects of the production of low standard social housing in the...
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Assessment of Early Childhood Mental Health in Immigrant and Local Children in Chile
Little is known about mental health during early childhood and differences in mental health problems between migrant and local preschool children in...
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“I wanted to have a Christian family”: Affinities Between Religiosity and Family Styles Among Catholics and Evangelicals in a Low-Income Neighborhood in Santiago
This article explores the relationship between religiosity—as experiential and practical religious involvement—and family styles—as effective kinship...
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K-Popping Urban Space in Santiago de Chile. The Use of Public Spaces as a Mobile Form Placemaking, Exploring and Subverting the City
Overcoming adult-centric ways of designing and producing public spaces is a major challenge in urban planning today. Through ethnographic work...
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Does Couples’ Division of Labor Influence Union Dissolution? Evidence from Parents of Young Children in Chile
We examined the role of couples’ division of labor in the risk of union dissolution among parents of young children in Chile. We looked at whether...
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“They’d Better Really Treat Her Nice”: Gendered Dynamics of Care and Control in Filipina Migrant-Broker Relations in Chile
Critical scholarship on migrant brokers and brokerage have problematized the popular dichotomy of brokers as either altruistic or exploitative....
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Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile
This chapter explores Santiago’s Plaza de Armas as an emergent space of migration. Recent flows of migrants have made use of this central public...
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My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile
This article presents original findings from a longitudinal qualitative study on changes in individual and family life associated with safety and...
