Abstract
Chile has sailed in troubled waters in recent months. The effects of the social crisis at the end of 2019 were not yet fully evident, when the Covid-19 pandemic forced the government to take drastic measures to try to slow down the advance of the virus. The restrictions imposed on displacement, dynamic quarantines and the suspension of non-essential activities had a strong impact on the employment and economic conditions of the inhabitants of Chile, and more dramatically on the migrant population. This article aims to make visible the vulnerability and precariousness of the migrant population in Chile in this context of a pandemic, as well as the need to generate situated and inclusive social policies.
Highlights
Chile has sailed in troubled waters in recent months
News was so alarming that necropolitics (Mbembe, 2003) became a popular term amid any collective concern about the health policies created around the world
Theoretical ideas about the cyclical crisis of capitalism were on everyone’s lips again remembering the beginning of 1929 recession and the total deaths caused by Spanish flu since 1918
Summary
Chile has sailed in troubled waters in recent months. The effects of the social crisis at the end of 2019 were not yet fully evident, when the Covid-19 pandemic forced the government to take drastic measures to try to slow down the advance of the virus. Keywords Crisis, migration, social policy, migrants in Chile, vulnerability, Covid-19
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