Migration in Chile: Inclusion of Haitian Kids in Educational Context.
Migration is a current and controversial topic nowadays worldwide. In Chile, most of the immigrants arrived are looking for jobs and maintaining a more comforting life. That´s the reason why a big percent of immigrants are from Latin-American countries, such as Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and in the latest years there has been an increase in the number of immigrants that came from Haiti, this event can be related with the numerous economic problems and crises that have occurred in this country.
Migration is a current and controversial topic nowadays worldwide. In Chile, most of the immigrants arrived are looking for jobs and maintaining a more comforting life. That´s the reason why a big percent of immigrants are from Latin-American countries, such as Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and in the latest years there has been an increase in the number of immigrants that came from Haiti, this event can be related with the numerous economic problems and crises that have occurred in this country.
Chart N°1
Visas granted to Haitian people
This is
a Chart that shows the number of visas granted to Haitian people for their
residency in Chile, in a period that goes from 2005 and 2015. As we can note,
since 2010 there has been a slightly increased in the number of visas, but in
2014 there is sharply rise from 3644 visas to a peak of 8888 in 2015, which
means the number of Haitian people arrived in Chile has increased considerately.
Now,
adults many times don´t leave their country by their own and they bring their
children with them to this new land. According to stadistic data, almost of a 13,5% of the Haitian immigrant in Chile are children between 0-14 years old, and from this percent, atleast the half of them will enter to chilean primary education. The adaptation to a new country it results
difficult for kids, even more if it is cultural and etnically different. About this, we can also consider the linguistic barrier, the big majority of Haitian children doesn´t speak Spanish as their native
language, fact that makes difficult their adaptation and their inclusion in the
social and educational context. We have to consider also the racism element,
since Chile is an extremely racist country with people with dark skin. Here it
comes the problem of how does manage the State for guarantee the educational
inclusion to Haitian immigrant kids.
About this, the Chilean State hasn´t enact enough laws for this regulation, and
it´s a duty for the State to regulate this topic and give opportunities to kids
for their develop as persons, and not necessary as Chilean citizens, because
when it comes to education rights it doesn´t matter the national barriers.
I wonder if we could consider migration a national issue or a governmental policy. Is interesting to see the view scholars have on the phenomenon as well.
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