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Women's Solidarity Networks Take on Covid 19: the Case of Valparaíso, Chile

Our research examined both local and transnational civil society responses to the migration crisis and advanced our understanding of how civil society actors engaged in collective action to counter the social boundaries of the nation-state system in relation to migration and welfare, to forge new meanings and practices of wellbeing and care.

Dr Armine Ishkanian

 

 

Concluded project in the Movements, Policy and the Politics of Inequality theme within the Politics of Inequality research programme 

This project connects with two International Inequalities Institute/Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity lines of research: “Global Economies of Care” and “The Politics of Inequality”. In the first case, we note how pobladora women’s survival networks in Valparaiso, Chile, are largely sustained through community ideas on “care”, while at the same time we consider their grassroots organising to be key in the re-definition of collective care strategies. In the second case, this project contributes to the creation of new, intersectional, feminist knowledge about the inequalities that working-class women in Latin America experience, which we hope will, in turn, enrich the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity research programme.

 

People

Researchers working on this project: 

Anita Peña Saavedra
Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and University of Diego Portales

Alondra Castillo
University of Valparaíso

Collaborators working on this project: Hillary Hiner, Paula Santana, Camila Rodo, Catalina Flores and Catalina Valenzuela

Publications and resources

Working paper: “Women's Solidarity Networks' take on COVID-19: The case of Valparaiso, Chile - Recommendations for local social policies”, Anita Peña Saavedra, Alondra Castillo Delgado, and Magdalena Rodriguez Torres (Download in English and in Spanish)

Policy inform: "Políticas públicas y violencia contra las mujeres: Reflexiones de activistas feministas", Paula Santana Nazarit, Anita Peña Saavedra, and Alondra Castillo Delgado (Download in Spanish).

Documentary Film: “Solidarity and resistances: the experience of pobladoras in Valparaíso, Chile”. Watch the trailer and the film.

Fanzine: "Rutas de derivación para la respuesta local de la violencia contra las mujeres en Valparaíso," Anita Peña Saavedra, Catalina Valenzuela, and Alondra Castillo Delgado (Download in Spanish).

 

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