Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX

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 professional...

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Main Author: Camila García Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2019-10-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/77132
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-7a14ab60ce034696a06b79a08b2aed272024-02-14T16:52:17ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522019-10-0110.4000/nuevomundo.77132Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XXCamila García SilvaThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/77132genderwomensocial controlimmigration legislationimmigrantssanitary institutionalism
spellingShingle Camila García Silva
Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
gender
women
social control
immigration legislation
immigrants
sanitary institutionalism
title Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX
title_full Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX
title_fullStr Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX
title_full_unstemmed Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX
title_short Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX
title_sort inmigracion femenina y labores sanitarias y sociales en chile de mediados del siglo xx
topic gender
women
social control
immigration legislation
immigrants
sanitary institutionalism
url https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/77132
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