PERSPECTIVES ON RESILIENCE AND MOURNING IN THE HISTORICAL AND CURRENT CHILEAN MIGRATION CONTEXT

This booklet forms part of the theoretical approaches and debates to be applied in 
Cluster 4 of the international project: “Human Mobility, Global Challenges and Resilience 
in an Age of Social Stress” (PHOENIX), Coordinated by Prof. Susan Rothman ( General 
Principal Investigator- PI) and funded by the Belmont Forum, as well as, having financial 
aid from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), in the case of the 
Latin American countries: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon), Uruguay, Argentina 
and Chile. In the case of São Paulo, the funding for the team at The State University of 
Campinas (UNICAMP) has been provided by The Foundation for the Support of 
Research in the State of São Paulo (FAPESP). 

Chapter 1 addresses a discussion of resilience theories highlighting some of its gaps 
and vacuums; Chapter 2 complements it with a discussion of different concepts on 
resettlement and psychic suffering of migrants. Chapter 3 places the socio-historical 
background of international migration within Latin America and Chile, while describing 
the trends in different waves of migrants until the present.