The Raúl Bitrán Chair will reflect on the scope of the migration phenomenon

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Discriminatory and exclusive behaviors are taught and learned, therefore, subject to being modified, is the message that will be worked on in the next conference of the Raúl Bitrán Chair of the U. of La Serena.

According to the report “Estimation of foreigners residing in Chile”, carried out jointly by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) and the Department of Immigration and Migration (DEM), the country reached 1.251.225 as of December 31, 2018. During the last 5 years, international migration has intensified in Chile, becoming an issue of high public interest.

The migration of people is a migration of citizens and political identities. Migrants faced in a new cultural scenario may be able to reconstruct or redefine fundamental values ​​such as: solidarity, civic duty, participation, citizenship, etc., giving them a new meaning.

Discriminatory and exclusive behaviors are taught and learned, therefore, subject to modification. That is why the University of La Serena invites you to participate in a conversation panel where the topic will be discussed, focusing on the fact that we must be able to recognize each other, as humans, as equals, as citizens, subjects of inviolable rights, morally capable. to reach political consensus, in a climate of respect for differences.

This activity seeks to reflect on the scope of the migratory phenomenon in social, political, demographic and cultural life, as well as the meanings and representations that we build around it and that promote the dignity of the great human family, in the panel “Intercultural Citizenship : for the transformation of social relations”, framed in the Raúl Bitrán Nachary Chair, dedicated this year to the topic “Inclusive Universities for Human Development”.

On this occasion, the guests are: Gladys Barraza, from the Institute of Human Development, Coquimbo Region; Claudia Farías, academic at the University of La Serena; and María Emilia Tijoux, rapporteur from the University of Chile, who will speak on a panel next Wednesday, October 9 at 11:30 a.m. in the ULS Aula Magna, located at Benavente 980, La Serena, with free entry.

Inviting reflection, Dr. María Emilia Tijoux, highlighted that “it seems that comprehensive Human Rights are not granted to people, men and women, who come from immigration, it is regrettable and dangerous for a society, because at the same time Chilean boys and girls are being educated in this culture, with common sense, who see the arrival of an immigrant as a dangerous arrival, as an invasion, as contamination and this racism must be understood not as a novelty but as that occurs at a universal level, but that in Chile has always been present.”

Written by Jenifer Araya, DIVULS