INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH: chilean education and immigration

1. Sometimes i think how can i explain the Chilean education system to someone who doesn't live here. The first things i think is important to understand is the relation between the quality of the education and the money that parents can pay for their children to study. The second, is the inequalities between schools related to that fact, or in other words; the financing of the schools and the distinction between public, private and subsidized institutions.  And finally the consequences for the student in their lives and futures. After explain that, the thing is how can we talk about equal opportunities, social mobility or personal effort? In my opinion we simply can't. 

2. Immigration in Chile has been recently a theme, a political theme really because we can say that immigration has been a social phenomenon during all human history.  However in Chile at least this theme doesn't have the political attention that should. Indeed, most of the policies and projects to ensure a good integration and for the other side lives without discrimination, has been developed by mayors and municipalities with a big number of immigrant neighbors. The question is why the main government are not interested in developed a good politics for the immigrants all over the country and instead prefer invert in humanitarian return flights? The argue we are going to explore is that this is important in first place because it can generate some consequences like people camping in front of their embassies with no food neither security of any kind. That is only the expression of the fragile reality of a lot of immigrants in Chile even before the corona-virus.

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Tamara Bolzman Valenzuela is a 4th year sociology student at Universidad de Chile. She is 21 years old and lives in Santiago with her parents, one dog and three cats. 

Since she was a child she has gone to dance classes, and till now modern dance is her favorite hobby.  She also takes lessons at Facultad de Economia y Negocios at Universidad de Chile for free. Due to that she has developed skills like talking in public very easily, experience with teamwork, constancy and perseverance in her projects.

Related with sociology she is now thinking about her thesis subject for the next semester, that will probably talk (in general) about gender violence, or social protests as a second option by now.

Before, she did works for the university related to other subjects like migration, housing problems known in Chile by campamentos, intergenerational inequality, cultural inequality and obstetric violence.

Finally, she is now participating in a feminist assembly in her neighborhood, doing things like coordinating workshops, share information at social media and participate in protest interventions. Lately and because of the Covid context, she is also participating in a food cooperative project, that follows the objective of finding cheaper food for the neighbors.

In her free time, she watches movies and series, mostly about historical fiction like Belle, Peaky Blinders, Elizabeth, Anne with an e and others.   

  

You can find Tamara by e-mail: tamara.bolzman@ug.uchile.cl