Mobility, Violence and Care: The Experience of Bolivian Women in the Chilean Territories of the Andean Triple-border

The article reviews the social sciences’ bibliography on the migrant experience of Bolivian women in the Chilean territories bordering the Andean Triple-border-Area (between Bolivia, Chile and Peru), emphasizing the studies carried out in the Chilean Region of Arica and Parinacota. We start by situating and describing the Chilean territory of the Andean Triple-border-Area. We also discuss how the processes of historical formation of its borders have played a central role in the institutionalization of patterns of gender violence. Then, we discuss the Bolivian women’s mobilities and the economic flows that characterize them. We also synthesized the studies on the Bolivian Aymara presence in the agricultural valleys of the city of Arica, the findings of the studies on the experience of gender violence by the Aymara migrants, and on the transnational and cross-border chains of care. In the final section, we weave our conclusions on these studies.