| Summary: | This research focus on explain why the Chilean 1953 legislation about immigration did not contemplate female migrants. This situation existed despite the presence of a considerable flow of migrants comprised of independent European women. These women were health care and social services professionals whose visas to live and work in the country from 1954-1965 were accepted. As a result it can be observed that the modern and explicit legal norm fomented the arrival of European men. While this occurred the legislation implicitly, subjectively, and arbitrarily was used as a mechanism of informal social control that emanated from a prejudiced State, which occasionally had to forego its stance due to practical considerations.
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