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Hemispheric & Polar Studies Journal, of the Centre for Hemispheric and Polar Studies, founded in 2010, is a bilingual, non-profit electronic publication, published each biannual -June and December- (until 2018 it was quarterly), of open access, dedicated to promote, under the highest standards of quality and ethical behavior, the pluralistic academic discussion among students, professional and the public in general of the realities of the Western Hemisphere and the polar regions, from the theoretical and applied perspectives of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education.
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Hemispheric & Polar Studies Journal publishes original and previously unpublished articles, the result of investigation projects, undergraduate and postgraduate thesis duly certified. It also encourages the development and promotion of scientific knowledge so as to promote the dialogue between students, professionals and the general public about the realities of the Western Hemisphere and the Polar Regions, from the technical and applied perspectives of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education.
Current Issue
Articles
The national security doctrine and its influence on inmigration policy: the venezuelan migtration case in the city of Iquique 2020-2021.
Pages: 01 - 22
In Chile, during the last decades, different interventions have been carried out in migration matters, in accordance with international standards. However, the securitization approach has strained the evolution between society and institutions. Since, from formal institutions, ideas are proposed in order to adapt to the phenomenon, but informal institutions have been strongly influenced by the National Security Doctrine, stressing the transition and the social disposition in the face of these changes. The present research is located in a descriptive interpretative perspective, since it aims to evaluate the influence of the National Security Doctrine in the Chilean migration policy, which is based on a qualitative analytical model, which was already focused on the case study on the city of Iquique, evidencing the asymmetric relationship that comes from the securitization approach, conditioning the citizen perception of the migrant, how this approach positioned him/her in the migration policy and the conflict between transition versus disposition. The findings suggest that the migration policy, despite its reforms, never managed to adapt to the evolution of migratory flows, due to design, sound, political and educational factors, which generated a humanitarian crisis in the north of the country.
Francisco Coloane and Miguel Serrano: chilean antarctic expeditions and literary construction.
Pages: 23 - 39
Decree No. 1747, during the mandate of Pedro Aguirre Cerda in 1940, is a fundamental milestone in Chile's relationship with the Antarctic continent. This episode is used by two authors of the 1938 generation from the novel genre: Francisco Coloane in "The conquerors of Antarctica" (Zig-Zag, 1945) and Miguel Serrano in "Who calls in the ice" (Nascimento, 1957). This paper aims to explain how this legal and diplomatic moment, which represented an important step in terms of sovereignty, was interpreted from the literary imagination. Both writers participated in the first (1947) and second Antarctic expedition (1948) immersed in the attempt to give an account, through narrative fiction, of the characteristics and implications of the Chilean presence in the white continent. In the case of Coloane, he describes a journey to commemorate the importance of the decree and the work of the President and, in the case of Miguel Serrano, it is an initiatory journey through a world that harbors millenary wisdom and that culminates in what will be the location of the Prat Base. The work we propose focuses on reflecting on the linkages that some writers established between Chile's presence in the Antarctic territory and their reading of the political, legal and diplomatic moment.
Rosa Ester Rodríguez en las campañas políticas y el gobierno de Jorge Alessandri.
Pages: 40 - 64
Rosa Ester Rodríguez Velasco (1872-1936) was the wife of former Chilean president Arturo Alessandri Palma (1920-1924 and 1932-1938), therefore, she played the role of first lady on two occasions. Although she died before the end of her husband's second term of government, her name continued to appear post mortem, in the two candidacies for the first magistracy of her son Jorge Alessandri and in the six-year term of the government of she. At first glance, being a single man without children would have pushed him to continually evoke his mother throughout her political career; We will see in this article that there were more underlying causes, values, ideological and strategic in a context of cultural, social and political changes.
After the peace: the chilean-argentine relations during the Alfonsin administration (1983-1986)
Pages: 65 - 83
This article studies the process of reconstruction of good bilateral relations between Chile and
Argentina after the resolution of the Beagle Channel controversy. This period coincides with the
new Argentine government of Raúl Alfonsín, who had the task of sign a peace treaty, reestablish
friendly relations and foster the economic integration. Successful in the first objective, the
relationship was disturbed by other elements, such as the ideological distance between the two
governments and the maintenance of unresolved geopolitical tensions, which caused the
incompleteness of the integration process.