Abstract

Based on the findings of two different studies on international migration processes within Latin America (south-south), which had as their destination the city of Santiago (Chile), we reflect on the experience of estrangement from oneself and from each other. The others in these migratory movements, understanding it as an interpellation that promotes processes of subjectivation linked to the condition of foreignness, which emerged as a finding in both investigations. The exploration of this idea is carried out from migration stories constructed through fieldwork in both studies, of a qualitative nature: the first of them recurred to the construction of migration stories of Dominican women, while the second used stories of Life of Peruvian and Colombian migrants with non-heteronormative sex-generic sub-jectivations. The objective of this paper is to describe those experiences to delineate this notion of estrangement in migratory processes, paying attention to the subjective impacts that this experience impresses on the migrant. The tour allows us to conclude that he faces the experience of what does not fit and the estrangement from oneself, which comes from the image of otherness that the host society returns to him. Faced with this, he reacts by making additions, resistances or adjustments to his ways of doing, often in a situational and strategic way to achieve his goals, in which he is not necessarily fully identified. These experiences promote processes of reflection about their identity image that open up new enunciative positions and transformations in the processes of subjectivation.