Integración y exclusión de inmigrantes colombianos recientes en santiago de chile: Estrato socioeconómico y “raza” en la geocultura del sistema-mundo

Abstract

The article explores the process of integration of Colombian immigrants in Santiago of Chile. The conclusion is that there are important differences in the integration of the different socioeconomic and “racial” groups of immigrants, in particular afrodescendant immigrants are exposed to situations of racial discrimination. Given that the afrodescendant population in Chile is newly arrived, racism against them must be explained contextualizing the “national culture” in the geoculture of the world-system, that contains a racial hierarchy shaped in the colonial era to support its racial division of labor. In this context, immigrants are received in Chile, a country imbued in this colonialist and eurocentric geoculture that explains the differential treatment given to the different immigrant groups.