The article is an approach to the social imaginary of teachers and health personnel from three schools in Santiago, in relation to Latin American adolescents’ migrants, in the areas of body and sexuality. The results are based on interviews with teachers and health professionals from the schools addressed. From this material a construction of the social imaginary around foreign students emerges, based on the interpretation that is made of their bodies, based on racialization and sexualization. Discourses that generate segregation and social hierarchy within schools are unveiled, which is associated with specific domination relations that reproduce a hegemony of the "white", generating a subalternity of the other through the significance of their bodies. This dynamic is intensified in the case of women Colombian students, on whom stereotypes that objectify them most strongly fall. Investigating these issues is relevant since the imaginaries that emerge from teachers and health personnel about migrant students permeate the content they transmit in educational communities, having a direct impact on the discourses and practices that are installed in those spaces regarding the international migrant community.
Keywords:
social imaginary, immigrants, body, sexualization, racialization
Obach, A., Sirlopú, D., & Urrutia, C. (2021). Social imaginary of teachers and health professionals from three schools in Santiago about body and sexuality of Latin American migrant students. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (43), 216–232. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2021.64441
