Children of migrants in Chile: Rights from a social inclusion perspective

Abstract

Given the intensification of immigration in Chile (Thayer 2016; Tijoux y Cordova Rivera 2015), it is becoming increasingly necessary to study the inclusion/exclusion processes experienced by migrants' children, highlighting their effective possibilities of exercising their rights as a new citizenship. This article presents the results of an investigation about the rights to provision, protection and participation - enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CDN) -of migrants' children in the Metropolitan Region, Chile. This study was conducted using a qualitative methodology focused on childhood. Its main results show inequality gaps in the effective exercise of rights related to the educational and social fields, which are also intersected by multiple axes by the form of consideration of the "difference" from axes such as national origin, class, gender and racialization.