The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics· 2026Q1
Migration and Cities in Chile: Building Territories of Solidarity in Hostile Contexts
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In Antofagasta, Chile, informal settlements (campamentos) have fostered 'territories of solidarity' through daily coexistence, mutual support, and alliances, creating infrastructures that bridge national and migrant populations despite hostile migration policies and criminalizing discourse.
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- Identified 'territories of solidarity' in Antofagasta, Chile, fostering infrastructures between national and migrant populations.
- Solidarity emerges through daily coexistence in informal settlements (campamentos), mutual support, and alliances.
- These practices create counter-spaces and counter-knowledge, resisting hostile migration policies and criminalizing discourse.
- The development of solidarity is linked to the local social fabric and relationships with governmental and institutional actors.
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Abstract
Abstract This article analyzes practices identified at the territorial level in Antofagasta, a city in northern Chile. These practices have successfully established infrastructures of solidarity between the national and migrant populations, resulting in what we refer to as territories of solidarity. Following Schillinger’s work (2020), we argue that within these territories, experiences of solidarity emerge through contentious processes stemming from daily coexistence in a group of informal settlements (known as campamentos in Chile), mutual support efforts, the creation of alliances, and the production of (counter)spaces and (counter)knowledge. These practices of solidarity take on configurations linked to the organized social fabric in this territory and to the relationships forged with governmental, institutional, and organized actors at different levels. This experience not only emerges and coexists but also suffers and resists hostile migration policies, along with a hegemonic discourse that criminalizes and otherizes migrants.
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