22.01.2025
[Colloquium:] Bets in Common: Immigrants at the Seizing Lands of Santiago de Chile
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 16.15 - 18.00 CET; Room 101, Institut für Soziologie (Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen) and via Zoom
On Thursday, 23 January (16.15 - 18.00 CET) Luis Alfredo Briceño Gonzalez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) will give a talk on “Bets in Common: Immigrants at the Seizing Lands of Santiago”. This talk will be held in room 101 at the Insitut für Soziologie (Wilhelmstraße 36, 72074 Tübingen) and can be followed online via Zoom. This event is the fifth and final session of the G-TURN colloquium "Urbanities in a Global Perspective: Crises, Change, and Continuity" of the winter term 2024/25.
Bio: Luis Alfredo Briceño Gonzalez is a social-cultural anthropologist focusing on immigrant urban communities facing Chile's housing deficit. He has done his PhD research on a Self-built informal settlement on the outskirts of Santiago inhabited by immigrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Peru, and Colombia, researching how the common emerges in the practice of conviviality and local politics.
Abstract: This presentation addresses the story of a self-built informal settlement of Santiago de Chile. In 2019, the "campamento" Jerusalem arose from a seizure in which Haitians and Venezuelans participated. Those immigrants were going through a set of precarity related to housing and their status as foreigners. The seizure was an opportunity to create a community and alleviate some of their burdens, but it brought many new challenges. This presentation explains how places like the campamentos suppose a new political space in the control of human mobility and the immigrant agency.