Abstract
In this article, we address the effects of the elaborations of the past on the situated production of the migrant category. Through the narratives of position regarding mobility and immobility of 24 Chilean women in the Parisian region, we identify conflictive (re)constructions of the migrant. The category is nourished by the role of memory in the significant creation of territories, temporalities and social relations, reproducing and also questioning the meanings offered by physical and social borders. This is a contribution to the understanding of the reciprocity between memories and migrations, revealing that it is not only migrant trajectories that construct memories, but that memory-making also participates in the construction of these trajectories, through reinterpretations of their meanings, orientations and possibilities.
Keywords:
memory; migration; mobility; Chile; France