Fran Olivares U

In Chile there are around 1,251,225 immigrants. This figure is only one number behind the multiple social problems that immigration brings. According to statistics, foreigners suffer from strong discrimination by Chileans, for example, most of them suffer from labor exploitation, poor working conditions, abuse in the price of room leases and high rates of overcrowding. There seems to be still a high rate of racism in Chilean society towards people who come to our country only looking for better life opportunities. However, this problem is structural and it is in the hands of this generation to eradicate racism from our culture.

The social movements on education in Chile affirm that education is a right and therefore it should be free of quality and with universal access for all. However, this is not so clear to everyone, since education in Chile is within the market, and is determined by some to be a consumer good. The debate about the education is crucial in a neo-liberal society like Chile, where the market is the one that regulates all sphere of life . The question is, how ready for are we that the market, capitalism and money consume our lives to the point of interfering with how we educate ourselves? It seems like a task for everyone to rethink education from a social perspective.  

Francisca Catalina Olivares Urbina is an excellent unemployed salesperson due to the pandemic, and in her free time…is a Social Work student at the Universidad de Chile. After spending her high school questioning her vocation for business administration, she realized that what she was passionate about was social. She is studying her fourth year about to graduate and receive a bachelor's degree in Social Work, and for this she is working on an article on Mental Health in crisis contexts, to later specialize in community psychology. She is now twenty one years old, is single, she has two precious dogs and she loves her little nieces so much. By the by, she participated in a very important project about the childhood and the vulnerability of the children of the Sename and the importance of detect the early alerts in order to prevent other horrible crisis in the institution. Now, she changed the focus of interest and she is participating in a project about the education for disa...