Experiencia migrante y apropiaciones espaciales: una etnografía visual en las inmediaciones del Terminal Internacional de Arica (Chile)

• Main Authors: Menara Lube-Guizardi, Orlando Heredia, Arlene Muñoz, Grecia Riquelme, Felipe Valdebenito
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2014-04-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Subjects: Spatial appropriation; borders; urban space; Andean TBA.
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/899/index.php?id=899

This essay presents a visual ethnography about the movements, spatial appropriations, and the migrant urban experience surrounding the International Bus Terminal of Arica (North of Chile). The Terminal, as it is popularly known, is a trans-bordered scenario, constituting one of the urban loci that articulate the national frontiers crossing between Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Inside the Terminal, and in its vicinity, we can observe spatial appropriations carried on by migrants and autochthones, which are involved in the commercial activities between national borders or in the migrant labor market so important to Arica's economic reality.