PERSPECTIVES ON RESILIENCE AND MOURNING IN THE HISTORICAL AND CURRENT CHILEAN MIGRATION CONTEXT

Authors: Liliana Acero & Pablo Zuleta Pastor & Claudia Castillo Dides

Abstract:

This booklet forms part of the theoretical approaches and debates to be applied in Cluster 4 of the international project: “Human Mobility, Global Challenges and Resilience  in an Age of Social Stress” (PHOENIX), Coordinated by Prof. Susan Rothmann  (General  Principal Investigator- PI) and funded by the Belmont Forum, as well as, having financial  aid from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), in the case of the  Latin American countries: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon), Uruguay, Argentina 
and Chile. In the case of São Paulo, the funding for the team at The State University of  Campinas (UNICAMP) has been provided by The Foundation for the Support of 
Research in the State of São Paulo (FAPESP). 

Chapter 1 addresses a discussion of resilience theories highlighting some of its gaps  and vacuums; Chapter 2 complements it with a discussion of different concepts on  resettlement and psychic suffering of migrants. Chapter 3 places the socio-historical  background of international migration within Latin America and Chile, while describing  the trends in different waves of migrants until the present.