Racialized otherness in the forced migration of afrocolombians to Antofagasta (Chile)

Abstract

This article establishes that in recent years, Chile has become a forced exile destination for Afrodescendants from the Paciic Coast of Colombia. Based on the characteristics of this migration network, the article analyzes the particularities of the Colombians’ forced international displacement to Antofagasta, Chile, as well as the reconiguration of the cultural representations they are subject to, and its connection with the production of racialized and sexualized political and social discourses. It concludes that these political and social discourses act as restrictive speech policies of transnational practices and socio-cultural incorporation on both sides of the border.