Experiences of gender violence in Bolivian migrant women residing in Tarapacá, Chile

Abstract

The article addresses the results of a case study on the experiences of violence that affect Bolivian migrants residing in Tarapacá, Chile. The research was carried out in 2019 and the objectives are: to understand how violence affects or alters the migration of those women and to investigate the level of knowledge about the Chilean and Bolivian institutions competent in the mat-ter. The text is structured around three methodological strategies: a review of the state of the art of the debates on the relationship between gender, violence and migration; a documentary analysis of national and international legislation and, application of qualitative interviews to 10 migrants who suf-fered violence by their partners. Within the findings, we corroborate that gender violence indeed influences the decision to migrate of the interviewees.