Article, 2024

Becoming a (Neuro)migrant: Haitian Migration, Translation and Subjectivation in Santiago, Chile

Medical Anthropology, ISSN 0145-9740, 1545-5882, Volume 43, 3, Pages 262-276, 10.1080/01459740.2024.2324890

Contributors

Abarca-Brown, Gabriel 0000-0001-5369-1616 (Corresponding author) [1]

Affiliations

  1. [1] University of Copenhagen
    2. [NORA names: KU University of Copenhagen; University; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD]

Abstract

Based on a multi-sited ethnography conducted over 14 months in northern Santiago, I examine how the introduction of a series of health policies and the global mental health agenda has interacted with and impacted Haitian migrants in the context of a postdictatorship neoliberal Chile (1990-2019). Specifically, I explore the interactions between health and social institutions, mental health practitioners, psy technologies, and Haitian migrants, highlighting migrants' subjectivation processes and everyday life. I argue that Haitian migrants engage with heterogeneous subjectivation processes in their interactions with health and social institutions, challenging normative values of integration into Chilean society. These processes are marked not only by the presence of, or exposure to, psy interventions and mental health discourses but also by the degree of compatibility between a psychiatric and neurological language and Haitians' ideals and moral frameworks.

Keywords

Chile, Chilean society, Haitian migrants, Haitian migration, Haitians, PSI technology, Santiago, agenda, compatibility, context, degree, degree of compatibility, discourse, ethnography, everyday life, exposure, framework, global mental health agenda, health, health agenda, health discourse, health policy, health practitioners, ideal, institutions, integration, interaction, intervention, introduction, language, life, mental health agenda, mental health discourse, mental health practitioners, migrants, migration, months, moral framework, multi-sited ethnography, neoliberal Chile, normative values, policy, postdictatorship, practitioners, presence, process, series, social institutions, society, subjectivation processes, subjectivism, technology, translation, values of integrity

Funders

  • European Research Council
  • Danish National Research Foundation

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