Inmigración Femenina y Labores Sanitarias y Sociales en Chile de Mediados del Siglo XX

Abstract

This research focus on explain why the Chilean 1953 legislation about immigration did not contemplate female migrants. This situation existed despite the presence of a considerable flow of migrants comprised of independent European women. These women were health care and social services professionals whose visas to live and work in the country from 1954-1965 were accepted. As a result it can be observed that the modern and explicit legal norm fomented the arrival of European men. While this occurred the legislation implicitly, subjectively, and arbitrarily was used as a mechanism of informal social control that emanated from a prejudiced State, which occasionally had to forego its stance due to practical considerations.

Keywords

• gender
• women
• social control
• immigration legislation
• immigrants
• sanitary institutionalism