Camila

Hi everyone! In this new post I am going to talk about an article I wrote last year about migrant children and xenophobia. The migration is a social phenomenon that has occurred throughout the years, but nowadays it has been positioned in public debate due to the increasing number of immigrants in Chile, the latter seen in the Censo executed in the year 2017, which indicates that there are 746.565 people born abroad that declared residing habitually in Chile. This phenomenon has not been exceptionally from adult people, instead, there is a high participation from children in this migratory process. The role of educational institutions in the process of foreign children inclusion in the country plays a fundamental function, for it is here where the prevailing cultural regulations are reproduced, and they are taught what is legitimate to learn according to the Chilean educational model. Nevertheless, it is not a free-violence place, oppression and xenophobia due to invisibilizati...