From Experiences of Solidarity to the Politicization in Precariousness: Migrant Women and Social Organization in an era of “Uprise” and Pandemic

Abstract

The article aims to describe and reflect on the way in which, in the face of the Chilean “social outbreak” and the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, network experiences of solidarity were deployed that link migrants, mainly women, with national actors. In some cases, such experiences were linked to processes of political subjectivation of these migrants, at times even intensifying them. These political subjectifications construct a subject that is enunciated from the class inequality inherent in neoliberal capitalism, and inequality that the nation-state establishes between citizens and non-citizens. For this reason, these processes are potentially transformative of the ideas and practices linked to citizenship. The analysis is carried out with regard to four experiences of organized solidarity: two of them related to help networks of sex and nocturnal workers, and another two that arose around struggles for housing, located in the two municipalities of the country with the largest number of of international migrants: Santiago and Antofagasta.