Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile

Edited by Pablo Marshall - Contributions by Jaime Bassa; Paula Hollstein; Paz Irarrázabal; Pablo Marshall; Matías Meza-Lopehandía; Carla Moscoso; Fernando Muñoz; Paula Nuño; Fernanda Torres; José Luis Ugarte; Ximena Valencia; Luis Villavicencio; Lieta Vivaldi and Yanira Zúñiga

Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile seeks to overcome an existing void in the literature of Latin American studies addressing the impact of Chile’s post dictatorial legal framework on its historically and structurally disadvantaged groups, concentrating on the various issues and challenges that affect them. Within its eleven chapters it explores the changing social and legal status of LGBTI people, the political disenfranchisement and the social exclusion that affects imprisoned individuals, the harshness of policing on poor and marginalized communities, the deprivation of indigenous peoples of meaningful rights, the vulnerability that affects workers as a consequence of the existing model of labor relations, the disenfranchisement that affects migrants seeking economic opportunities, the denial of citizenship to women involved in the prohibition of abortion, the unsatisfactory regulation of sex work, the prevalence of domestic violence, and the absence of adequate means for disadvantaged groups to institutionalize their political representation. This book offers a distinctive contribution, focusing on a specific country in the Global South that is presently undergoing a process of economic consolidation while facing many of the problems of traditional and unequal Latin American societies.

Lexington Books

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½

978-1-4985-6314-7 • Hardback • November 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-6315-4 • eBook • November 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: History / Latin America / South America

Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile

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Summary

Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile seeks to overcome an existing void in the literature of Latin American studies addressing the impact of Chile’s post dictatorial legal framework on its historically and structurally disadvantaged groups, concentrating on the various issues and challenges that affect them. Within its eleven chapters it explores the changing social and legal status of LGBTI people, the political disenfranchisement and the social exclusion that affects imprisoned individuals, the harshness of policing on poor and marginalized communities, the deprivation of indigenous peoples of meaningful rights, the vulnerability that affects workers as a consequence of the existing model of labor relations, the disenfranchisement that affects migrants seeking economic opportunities, the denial of citizenship to women involved in the prohibition of abortion, the unsatisfactory regulation of sex work, the prevalence of domestic violence, and the absence of adequate means for disadvantaged groups to institutionalize their political representation. This book offers a distinctive contribution, focusing on a specific country in the Global South that is presently undergoing a process of economic consolidation while facing many of the problems of traditional and unequal Latin American societies.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½

978-1-4985-6314-7 • Hardback • November 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-6315-4 • eBook • November 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: History / Latin America / South America

Author

Pablo Marshall is associate professor of law at Universidad Austral de Chile.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Institutional Response to Sexually Diverse Citizenship: Readaptation and Resistance

Fernando Muñoz

2. Autonomy, Vulnerability, and Resistance: Brief History of the Feminist Fight for Abortion

Lieta Vivaldi

3. Political Participation of Women: Potentialities, Limits, and Challenges

Yanira Zúñiga

4. Torture and Domestic Violence: A View from Cases of Terroristic Torture and Intimate Terrorism

Paula Hollstein

5. The Response to Sex Work: A Regulation with a Voice of Their Own

Paula Nuño and Ximena Valencia

6. Toward a Multicultural Jurisdiction: The Case of Mapuche Women

Luis Villavicencio

7. Frustrated Multiculturalism: (Neo)Liberalism and the Mapuche People

Matías Meza-Lopehandía

8. Immigrants: Legal Configuration of a Disadvantaged Group

Jaime Bassa and Fernanda Torres

9. Public Order and Inequality in the Streets

Paz Irarrázabal

10. Citizenship and Prisoners

Pablo Marshall and Carla Moscoso

11. The Worker by Himself: Thwarting Workers’ Collective Action Through Law

José Luis Ugarte

Index

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Reviews

"This is an impressive book. A must read for all those interested in knowing more about the challenges confronted by disadvantaged groups in Chile, and particularly for those who want to study the subject from a legal perspective. The book brings together the analysis of young and prominent social scientists offering lucid and critical approaches to the topic."
— Roberto Gargarella, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

"The book offers a highly readable empirical account of feminist, LGTB, indigenous, and workers' political struggles in Chile, combined with a clear and accessible theoretical reflection on the idea of citizenship and the roots of the Chilean constitution. It is a privileged window for the world to look into Chilean society, and an inspiration for academics in Spanish speaking countries where no such window exists."
— Paula Casal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

"This book introduces some of the main issues of social movements' agendas in a critical, informed, and convincing manner. It should be of interest to all those who are interested in what is happening in Chile in general in matters of human rights and for those who are interested in specific issues such as gender, multiculturalism and poverty. Without a doubt a great contribution."
— Fernando Atria, Universidad de Chile