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Pensamiento nacionalista-territorializado y percepción de "des-ubicamiento" del inmigrante: el camino hostil de las construcciones de identidades chilenas en la convivencia escolar

2018; Issue: 49 Linguagem: Inglês

10.31619/caledu.n49.576

0718-4565

Pablo Roessler,

Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America

This investigation seeks to understand how Chilean adolescents, who who interact with immigrant peers, express their national identity. Considering contexts of inequality and social exclusion of immigrants and locals, this article analyzes the constructions of national identities, regarding both its current relevancy and historical interaction with the migration phenomenon. Through qualitative research techniques, applied between 2016 and 2017in six schools in the municipalities of Santiago and Quinta Normal, it was possible to identify a set of discourses employed by Chilean adolescents about their national identity, which are exclusionary and hold the -immigrant "other” in low esteem. These discourses highlight a nationalist-territorialized mode of thinking, which upon constructing notions about subjects of legitimate rights, do not recognize their immigrant peers, who are perceived by native Chileans as bearers of everyday borders that place them in a de-territorialized and indebted position.