Abstract

ROMERO, Mileska. Experiences of gender violence in Bolivian migrant women residing in Tarapacá, Chile. Estud. front [online]. 2022, vol.23, e085.  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 2395-9134.  https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.2201085.

The article addresses the results of a case study on the experiences of violence that affect Bolivian migrants residing in Tarapacá, Chile. The research was carried out in 2019 and the objectives are: to understand how violence affects or alters the migration of those women and to investigate the level of knowledge about the Chilean and Bolivian institutions competent in the matter. The text is structured around three methodological strategies: a review of the state of the art of the debates on the relationship between gender, violence and migration; a documentary analysis of national and international legislation and, application of qualitative interviews to 10 migrants who suffered violence by their partners. Within the findings, we corroborate that gender violence indeed influences the decision to migrate of the interviewees.

Keywords : gender violence; legal frameworks; Bolivian migrants; Tarapacá.