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Emergent SpacesPractice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile

Emergent Spaces: Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile [This chapter explores Santiago’s Plaza de Armas as an emergent space of migration. Recent flows of migrants have made use of this central public space for diverse everyday activities. As migrant social practices have marked a shift in how this historic and important national site is perceived, Chileans have discursively contested migrant presence in the plaza. I examine how discourses about the plaza circulate and craft spatial associations. As migrant use of the plaza is recognized and debated, a spatial association coalesces through the cumulative effect of these disparate discourses. I argue that the circulation of spatial tropes plays a central role in the remaking of emergent spaces and that debates over spatial associations highlight the multivocality of small urban sites—even as sites take on new meanings, emergent spaces may continue to hold divergent meanings and importance for different actors.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emergent SpacesPractice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuppinger, Petra
Sheehan, Megan
Emergent Spaces — Jan 1, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84378-6
Pages
63 –84
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84379-3_4
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Abstract

[This chapter explores Santiago’s Plaza de Armas as an emergent space of migration. Recent flows of migrants have made use of this central public space for diverse everyday activities. As migrant social practices have marked a shift in how this historic and important national site is perceived, Chileans have discursively contested migrant presence in the plaza. I examine how discourses about the plaza circulate and craft spatial associations. As migrant use of the plaza is recognized and debated, a spatial association coalesces through the cumulative effect of these disparate discourses. I argue that the circulation of spatial tropes plays a central role in the remaking of emergent spaces and that debates over spatial associations highlight the multivocality of small urban sites—even as sites take on new meanings, emergent spaces may continue to hold divergent meanings and importance for different actors.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

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