Reterritorializaciones migrantes a través del cuerpo y su expresividad

Abstract

Migration challenges the relation between identity-building process and territory. Space hastraditionally been observed as backdrop of social relations and practices, but a constructivistperspective leads the analysis to observe the practices producing space and territory. Thatspace expresses itself on different territorialities. Some practices of migrant populationproduce territory on the bodies, so, the body becomes territory. This reflection expands theknowledge of migration and its spatial expression. The present text is based on ethnographicalfieldwork on migrant beauty salons and barber shops in Santiago downtown. Consideringthese empirical observations, the text discusses multiple ways to produce space through theidentity-building processes.