COMERCIO MIGRANTE EN VALPARAÍSO, CHILE. PRÁCTICAS DE APROPIACIÓN DE LA CIUDAD.

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Title: COMERCIO MIGRANTE EN VALPARAÍSO, CHILE. PRÁCTICAS DE APROPIACIÓN DE LA CIUDAD.
Alternate Title: MIGRANT TRADE IN VALPARAÍSO, CHILE. PRACTICES OF CITY APPROPRIATION.
Authors: ZENTENO-TORRES, ELIZABETH1 elizabeth.zenteno@upla.cl, PINTO-BALEISAN, CAROLINA2 cpinto@uvm.cl
Source: Urbano. Nov2025, Vol. 28 Issue 52, p8-20. 13p.
Subjects: Latin Americans, Inner cities, Migrant labor, Transnationalism, Urban growth, Equality, Economic activity
Geographic Terms: Valparaíso (Chile), Chile
Abstract (English): The urban transformation of Valparaíso reflects the recent arrival of migrant groups from Latin American countries. This study examines how these populations appropriate the city through trade, employing a theoretical approach to mobility. Through a multi-sited ethnographic investigation that includes diverse research techniques on movement and its triangulation, three modes of appropriation through commercial practices are analyzed. Some involve relatively mobile locations, others reveal the formation of commercial spaces that replicate local trends, while some emerge at the intersection with other urban uses. Transnational connections that foster specific forms of rootedness are also identified. The heterogeneity of these practices highlights migrant trade as a way of occupying, appropriating, and disputing urban space. However, these processes are not exempt from power inequalities that shape urban experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Spanish): Las transformaciones urbanas de la ciudad de Valparaíso reflejan la reciente llegada de grupos migrantes de países latinoamericanos. Este trabajo indaga en cómo estas poblaciones se apropian de la ciudad mediante el comercio desde el enfoque teórico de la movilidad. Mediante una investigación etnográfica multisituada que incluye diferentes técnicas de investigación en movimiento y su triangulación, se analizan tres prácticas de apropiación desplegadas a través de prácticas comerciales. Algunas de ellas se vinculan a ciertos emplazamientos relativamente móviles, otras dan cuenta de la configuración de espacios comerciales que replican las tendencias locales, o bien se establecen en la intersección con otros usos. Se identifican también anclajes transnacionales que favorecen ciertos arraigos. La heterogeneidad de las prácticas identificadas evidencia que el comercio migrante es una forma de ocupar, apropiarse y disputar la ciudad. Sin embargo, estos procesos no están ajenos a las desigualdades de poder que se ejercen en la experiencia urbana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:The urban transformation of Valparaíso reflects the recent arrival of migrant groups from Latin American countries. This study examines how these populations appropriate the city through trade, employing a theoretical approach to mobility. Through a multi-sited ethnographic investigation that includes diverse research techniques on movement and its triangulation, three modes of appropriation through commercial practices are analyzed. Some involve relatively mobile locations, others reveal the formation of commercial spaces that replicate local trends, while some emerge at the intersection with other urban uses. Transnational connections that foster specific forms of rootedness are also identified. The heterogeneity of these practices highlights migrant trade as a way of occupying, appropriating, and disputing urban space. However, these processes are not exempt from power inequalities that shape urban experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:07173997
DOI:10.22320/07183607.2025.28.52.01