This article seeks to account for the link between Chilean migration policies and the production of migrant smuggling on the country’s northern borders, in a context of global migration regime. Likewise, it reflects on the consequences of migratory illegalization caused by migrant smuggling and by the elaboration and legitimization of categories such as illicit, crime and irregular. To this end, a review of the literature referring to illegalized migration is made, taking some elements of the autonomy of migrations. It is evident that citizenship is exercised if social rights are assured, which is not the case with this population, that experiences a hyper vulnerability of its life, but that at the same time puts into practice a series of clandestine and public, individual and collective resistance that allows them to exercise a migrant citizenship. Methodologically, an ethnography of ...

This article seeks to account for the link between Chilean migration policies and the production of migrant smuggling on the country’s northern borders, in a context of global migration regime. Likewise, it reflects on the consequences of migratory illegalization caused by migrant smuggling and by the elaboration and legitimization of categories such as illicit, crime and irregular. To this end, a review of the literature referring to illegalized migration is made, taking some elements of the autonomy of migrations. It is evident that citizenship is exercised if social rights are assured, which is not the case with this population, that experiences a hyper vulnerability of its life, but that at the same time puts into practice a series of clandestine and public, individual and collective resistance that allows them to exercise a mi...

This article seeks to account for the link between Chilean migration policies and the production of migrant smuggling on the country’s northern borders, in a context of global migration regime. Likewise, it reflects on the consequences of migratory illegalization caused by migrant smuggling and by the elaboration and legitimization of categories such as illicit, crime and irregular. To this end, a review of the literature referring to illegalized migration is made, taking some elements of the autonomy of migrations. It is evident that citizenship is exercised if social rights are assured, which is not the case with this population, that experiences a hyper vulnerability of its life, but that at the same time puts into practice a series of clandestine and public, individual and collective resistance that allows them to exercise a mi...