Migrant children and xenophobia

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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 invisibilization of symbolic violence that foreign children suffer, as for example, excluding the identity and self-culture through school uniform, disguising this action (as symbolic violence) by their legitimacy as an institution. The present article raises and will develop this next thesis: Educative interventions from schools are focused in fighting relational-type violence (physical, psychological and verbal) disregarding symbolic violence practices like the reproductions of the dominant culture and the imposition of certain culturalized behaviors.



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  1. JPCareaga3 de junio de 2019 a las 12:51

    Nice entry, but I found a lot of controversial issues with what you said...education is a wider spectrum than presented on your post.

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