Polivictimization and agency practices of migrant children in Chile from an intersectional perspective

Abstract

From a critical perspective of childhood studies and from an intersectional approach, we present the articulation in the forms of violence that migrant children cross in Chile and the agency practices that develop these processes of victimization. Based on a qualitative methodology, different practices are analyzed in relation to violence, a field of research not sufficiently explored in this context. We propose how migrant children live situations of multiple and specific violence, in various social spaces — close and institutional spaces — at the intersection of axes of differentiation such as age, national origin, gender and the socioeconomic position, enabling effects of subalternization. At the same time, we trace diverse child agency practices that break the monolithic configuration of a "victim".