Abstract

This article aims to interpret the corporality of migrants as people smuggling objects, with emphasis on the psychosocial experience of clandestine immigration in Chile, to analyze the impact of the migration policy on their bodies. For this, firstly we propose the need for a methodological innovation for the study of these “alternative neo-mobilities”, as a challenge of the anthropology of clandestine migration. Then we present a systematization of experiences that combine art and collaborative research with migrants in its methodologies, among which is the ‘Spontaneous Theater’ device, which is proposed as an intervention in this corporal methodology. This intervention allows analyzing the subjective dimension of people smuggling, based on three concepts: ignominy, racism, and agency