#12145. Conflicting visibilities: Police and politics among border migrants in Chile

July 2026publication date
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Abstract:
The inhabitants of the squatted settlements in the border city of Arica, mostly indigenous migrants from the Peruvian–Bolivian highlands, feel the effects of the racialized geography of northern Chile through social discrimination, economic exploitation, and deprivation of political rights. In these settlements, migrant residents make palpable the pervasive tension between a mode of visibility analyzed in terms of ‘politics of presence’ and another kind of visibility created by the state’s ‘legibility’ techniques. Three aspects come together in this process: (1) the reciprocal influence between a borderland and its police order; (2) the relationship between biopower and the (in)visibility dynamic of migrant lives; and (3) the generative relationship between a redefinition of security and altered citizen practices. This article describes how border migrants forge cunning and rebellious political subjectivities that challenge the border regime in which they find themselves by questioning both the basis on which rights are defined and the boundaries of citizenship.
Keywords:
Border migrants; Chile; conflicting visibilities; police; politics of presence; security

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