Macarena BonhommeUniversidad Autónoma de Chile · Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
Macarena Bonhomme
PhD in Sociology
Profesora Asistente UA, e Investigadora Adjunta COES. Inv. Responsable FONDECYT/Postdoc/322193 y co-invest. Reg/1200082
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Introduction
Macarena Bonhomme holds a PhD in Sociology (Goldsmiths, University of London) and a MSc in Culture and Society (LSE). She was awarded the LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award 2020 for her doctoral thesis, titled: "Making 'Race' at the Urban Margins: Latin American and Caribbean Migration in Multicultural Chile."
Supervisors: Les Back, Caroline Knowles
Areas of interest: Migration, Racism and 'Race' Relations, Ethnicity, Cultural and Urban Studies, Gig Economy, Visual Studies.
Additional affiliations
September 2020 - August 2022
Universidad de Chile
Position
- Adjunct Professor
Description
- Professor of two undergraduate compulsory courses. Course "Qualitative Research Strategies" Course "Qualitative Analysis"
June 2020 - November 2022
Position
- Adjunct Professor
Description
- Professor of two courses at a Postgraduate programme: Magister en Métodos para la Investigación Social (MMIS). Course "Qualitative Interview"; and course "Visual and live methods for social research". Professor of an undergraduate course (2021): "Contemporary Migrations"
October 2019 - September 2022
Fairwork
Position
- Co-Investigator
Description
- Co-investigator at the Fairwork Foundation (University of Oxford). Part of the Chile team.
Education
October 2014 - February 2020
October 2010 - September 2011
March 2004 - January 2009
Publications
Publications (42)
Drawing on a 17-month ethnography in a multicultural neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, and a content analysis of news media coverage, the authors focus on two news pieces about migrants that emerged as relevant by research participants, examining how the media and the local response framed them. The authors discuss how migrants’ portrayal in the med...
Notions of ‘race’ and disease are deeply imbricated across the globe. This article explores the historical, complex entanglements between ‘race’, disease, and dirtiness in the multicultural Chilean context of COVID-19. We conducted a quantitative content analysis and a discourse analysis of online readers’ comments (n=1,233) in a digital news platf...
In the context of rising South-South migration to Chile, this article examines how Chileans redefine and claim whiteness in a multicultural working-class neighborhood in Santiago. It contributes to regional racial studies by analyzing how whiteness is constructed in multicultural neighborhoods where different national and racialized identities that...
[Cultural Racism. The Role of Housing Precarity in the Reproduction of Racism Against Migrants in Multicultural Chile.]
Chile is one of the countries with major destination flows from Latin America and the Caribbean. In such a context, new distinctions and racial formations have emerged, establishing different forms of social exclusion and racism...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted social interactions and coexistence around the globe in dimensions that go far beyond health issues. In the case of the Global South, the pandemic has developed along with growing South-South migratory movements, becoming another key factor that might reinforce social conflict in increasingly multicultural areas a...
En los últimos diez años Macarena Bonhomme (37) se ha dedicado a investigar los efectos del fenómeno migratorio en el país: la construcción del racismo, la convivencia entre migrantes y chilenos, y la realidad laboral a la que se ve sometida la migración, entre otros. Socióloga UC, máster en Cultura y Sociedad de la London School of Economics y doc...
Visual Narratives: Photography as a methodology in social sciences
Editado por Denisse Sepúlveda y Francisca Ortiz.
Libro de la Comisión Desafíos del Futuro, Ciencia, tecnología e Innovación del Senado de la República de Chile 2018-2022
https://www.bcn.cl/publicaciones/ediciones-bcn/detalle_libro?id=10221.1/85083
The Chilean Congress will finish reviewing a bill that regulates the legal and labour aspects of the so-called “platform work” in the coming days. If the proposed rules are approved, Chile will be one of the first countries to have a legislative answer to the question that has been debated in every corner of the world where this industry has develo...
Drawing on a 17-month ethnography in a multicultural neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, and a content analysis of news media coverage, the authors focus on two news pieces about migrants that emerged as relevant by research participants, examining how the media and the local response framed them. The authors discuss how migrants’ portrayal in the med...
We first introduce the Fairwork project, discussing its conception, the underlying theory of change and the methodology used to score gig economy platforms. The bulk of the chapter consists of four Global South country case studies where the Fairwork project was applied: Chile, South Africa, Indonesia and Ecuador. For each country, we briefly sketc...
In this chapter, we first introduce the Fairwork project, discussing its conception, the underlying theory of change and the methodology used to score gig economy platforms. The bulk of the chapter consists of four Global South country case studies where the Fairwork project was applied: Chile, South Africa, Indonesia and Ecuador. For each country,...
Blog Observatorio de Desigualdades, Universidad Diego Portales
https://observatoriodesigualdades.udp.cl/trabajadores-migrantes-en-la-economia-de-plataformas-un-nuevo-tipo-de-trabajo-sin-derechos/
Esta columna presenta datos sobre los estándares laborales de siete de las plataformas digitales más conocidas en Chile: Uber, Uber Eats, Cabify, Cornershop, Rappi, Pedidos Ya y DiDi. Ninguna pasa la prueba de un trabajo justo, plantean la autora y los autores. La desprotección, el traspaso de costos de la empresa a los trabajadores, y escasas posi...
América Latina ha estado en el centro de los recientes debates sobre las condiciones precarias e injustas de los trabajadores en la economía de las plataformas. Actualmente, el proyecto Fairwork está presente en cinco países latinoamericanos: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador y Brasil. Este informe sobre las condiciones laborales de los trabajado...
Chile es uno de los países con mayores flujos migratorios provenientes de América Latina y el Caribe. Este artículo explora la convivencia social en barrios residenciales en el contexto migratorio Sur-Sur, con el fin de examinar los múltiples factores que operan detrás del conflicto social emergente entre migrantes y chilenos. La creciente llegada...
Chile es uno de los países con mayores flujos migratorios provenientes de América Latina y el Caribe. Este artículo explora la convivencia social en barrios residenciales en el contexto migratorio Sur-Sur, con el fin de examinar los múltiples factores que operan detrás del conflicto social emergente entre migrantes y chilenos. La creciente llegada...
This panel brings together scholars whose work seeks to tame platform capitalism understanding how the lives of platform workers are affected by digital platforms. Research on platform labor has been mostly done in the global north, as well as in relation to global platforms like Uber or Amazon (Rosenblat 2019; Scholz 2016). Thus, the panelists, mo...
Columna CIPER Académico
https://ciperchile.cl/2020/04/02/la-otra-primera-linea-covid-19-y-trabajadores-de-plataformas-digitales/
La mayoría de los trabajadores de plataformas como Uber, Rappi, Pedidos Ya, Uber Eats o Cornershop son migrantes, no tienen contrato, cobertura de salud, jefatura clara, ni acceso a guantes o alcohol gel. Corren un gran...
Basado en entrevistas etnográficas a cuatro mujeres chilenas que vivieron su exilio en Londres (de las cuales dos decidieron retornar), este estudio revela cómo a través de la posesión de objetos significativos en el hogar —que transportaron junto a ellas y/o adquirieron durante el exilio— se negocian cotidianamente la pertenencia a dos mundos, el...
This thesis explores how ‘race’ is made at the national and local level in multicultural postcolonial Chile. Furthermore, it examines how Latin American and Caribbean migrants negotiate both state and everyday racisms, navigating boundaries of belonging at the urban margins. Racist state politics have not only been embedded since colonial times and...
Resumen. La industria de la construcción ha experimentado en las últimas décadas importantes cambios a nivel de gestión del trabajo, condiciones laborales y composición de la fuerza de trabajo, destacando la creciente participación de trabajadores migrantes. El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar la relación entre la subcontratación en cuant...
Resumen La industria de la construcción ha experimentado en las últimas décadas importantes cambios a nivel de gestión del trabajo, condiciones laborales y composición de la fuerza de trabajo, destacando la creciente participación de trabajadores migrantes. El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar la relación entre la subcontratación en cuanto...
CONFERENCE PAPER (2013): Este articulo busca profundizar en la construcción del espacio privado de migrantes peruanas en Santiago, a través del análisis de las posesiones del hogar y prácticas cotidianas. Los resultados muestran que las formas de habitar el hogar se relacionan con sus procesos de integración, pues a través de la cultura material se...
Curricular guidelines have become progressively relevant for educating future active citizens. In such a context, it becomes crucial to explore the relationship between the curricular guidelines and how citizenship education is currently acquired by students in Latin American countries. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to comparatively evaluate...
La investigación de que damos cuenta en este capítulo trasciende la temática curricular para establecer, como su objeto de análisis e interpretación, la implementación efectiva de las oportunidades de aprendizaje que el currículo define; es decir, la pedagogía y la evaluación que ponen en práctica los profesores y la interacción de estos con sus al...
Authors: Carolina Stefoni, Macarena Bonhomme
Empirical evidence has consistently shown that political participation is positively related with socioeconomic background. Furthermore, recent research suggests that children who come from low status families are already less willing to get politically involved. The present paper aims to analyze the possible impact that schools can have in mitigat...
Han pasado cerca de 20 años desde que comenzó a modiicarse el patrón migratorio en Chile, y durante ese tiempo los y las migrantes han ido construyendo múltiples trayectorias en el país. La forma en cómo se construyen estas trayectorias está condicionada por factores económicos, políticos y culturales que encuentran los sujetos en las sociedades de...
Citizenship participation is a key element to sustain and legitimize the democratic system. Although citizens are assumed to have similar rights, the empirical evidence suggests that participation is characteristic of those with higher socioeconomic background (Brady, et. al., 1995). Furthermore, these inequalities would have an intergenerational t...
To what extent does social origin impact the disposition of students toward becoming politically involved in their future adult life? Using Chilean data from Civic Education Study, 1999 (N = 5688), and International Civic and Citizenship Education Study, 2009 (N = 5192), the present research analyzes, on the one hand, the impact of socioeconomic va...
What are the key contents related to democratic life in the curricula of civic and citizenship education in Latin American countries? What values and dimensions are most emphasized?
This paper summarizes the results of a comparative analysis of civic/citizenship curricula for primary and secondary education in six countries of the region that parti...
El trabajo considera los currículos de seis países latinoamericanos – Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, México, Paraguay y República Dominicana –, que a fines de la década pasada convinieron en ser parte del proyecto Sistema Regional de Evaluación y Desarrollo de Competencias Ciudadanas (SREDECC). Con el apoyo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, SRED...
This article attempts to analyze in depth the ways in which Peruvian migrants inhabit their private space from a material culture approach, through the analysis of both home possessions and food. The material culture of home embodies both their experiences and migrant trajectory, and the process of integration into the host society, representing th...
This research explores the process of ‘making home’ for Chilean women living in London from two different generations and diverse reasons for migrating: exiles from Pinochet’s dictatorship and women who were born during the dictatorship and moved to London more recently. This ethnographic approach of four women’s homes holistically compares and exp...
En la presente investigación se indaga acerca de los factores escolares que se relacionan con el aprendizaje de las ciencias en Chile, usando los datos de PISA 2006. Para ello, primero se hace un análisis de la relación entre el nivel socioeconómico y cultural de los estudiantes y sus logros de aprendizaje, tanto en Chile, como en los otros países...
Projects
Projects (5)
El objetivo general de esta investigación, que corresponde al Proyecto FONDECYT Nº 322193, es examinar las trayectorias, experiencias, relaciones laborales y formas de resistencia de migrantes de América Latina y el Caribe que trabajan en plataformas digitales geo-localizadas de reparto, según estatus migratorio, etnicidad, y género, en Santiago y Valparaíso.
Our aim is to explore the social and cultural representations of Latin American and Caribbean migrants in Chile in the media from a de- and post-colonial approach and its implications. We analyse anti-immigration discourses and processes of racialisation that take place in media outlets and social media, and how media framing shape people's representations and reinforce everyday racism at the local level.
This project undertakes innovative research that focuses on these workers, their experiences, labour processes, and the organisation of their work. This project is based at the Oxford Internet Institute, and we develop and lead the research strategy in Chile. This includes adapting the Fairwork principles, interviewing workers and platform executives, analysing the evidence and developing platforms’ scores, and disseminating the results.
