Erradicación de pobladores y recomposición identitaria: el caso de la Villa Estrecho de Magallanes (Santiago de Chile)

Abstract

This article discusses the emergence of collective identities arising in a framework of spatial segregation and intracommunal homogenization provoked during the urban reform policies promoted by the Chilean military dictatorship. The research carried out in the Estrecho de Magallanes settlement was developed using qualitative research techniques such as participant observation and depth interview. We can conclude that, despite the policies of eradication and establishment of the military dictatorship and its manifestation of interest in the particular circumstances of the organization and collective identification, the inhabitants tend to re-create identities associated to the symbolization of the inhabited space and the joint actions that they deploy in response to social marginality.