Pautas de integración regional, migración, movilidad y redes sociales en los pueblos indígenas de Chile

Abstract

This paper analyzes the importance of the relations that the rural and urban community members undergo in three Chilean indigenous peoples as a result of migrations and the spatial mobility provoked by a more active participation in the regional work force and economic markets. The validity and importance of these social networks permits their definition as translocalization. These relations are described and contextualized establishing the regional integration models that the indigenous peoples have constructed in modern times. As well as a review of previous publications, empirical evidence is presented which comes from the study of three indigenous communities: one Aymara and another Atacaman, both from the extreme north of the country, and the third, Mapuche from the Araucana region. © 2008 Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos "Juan Ignacio Molina" Universidad de Talca.