Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2026
This chapter invites our readers on a visual journey through the Azapa Valley and the Agromarket, spaces that articulate Indigenous Bolivian migration in Arica (Chile). The chapter seeks to contrast the visual records and ethnographic field diaries with the information about these spaces detailed in the previous literature. First, it outlines Arica’s current social and economic configurations, providing demographic data on international migration in the city. Second, the profiles of the thirty women interviewed are examined in-depth, providing key information to situate their trajectories and testimonies (which will be taken up in the following chapters of the volume). Third, the Azapa Valley will be described, showing how its farmland has been transformed into one of the most important agricultural enclaves in the Atacama Desert. The chapter also presents the Bolivian women’s working spaces in the Agromarket of the city.
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