Corpographing “border-schools”: engaged ethnographies in intercultural peripheral schools in Santiago de Chile

Abstract

Recent migrations transformed Chile. Migrant corporealities questioned the racialized foundations of local subjectivity. Integration/inclusion discourses increased tensions with local populations marked by historical class and gender-based oppression and exclusion. Faced with new hateful subjectivities, between 2013 and 2017 I accompanied intercultural educational processes in a peripheral area of Santiago de Chile as ethnographer and educator-researcher. Through exercises in methodological reflexivity as a social program tutor, with the (non)school group “The Experimenters” and as co-teacher in interculturality, I portray intersectional violence in childhood and youth, along with contradictions in school communities absorbed by the hyperreality of territorial violence.