Abstract

PERREN, Joaquín. ʺOut of the pan falling in the embersʺ: Employment, residential segregation and marriage patterns of Chileans in Neuquén province during the 1980s. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.21, pp.415-436. ISSN 1514-6871.

This work studies the Chilean migrants in Neuquén city during the 1980s. To that end, we first analyzed the context of this migration process, exploring the growth strategy of the provincial State and the changes generated in the population and in the society. Secondly, we analysed, based on information provided by a permanent survey of households, the inclusion of the Chilean in the occupational structure of the provincial capital. Thirdly, we examined the residential patterns shown by the people of Chilean origin in the city, taking into consideration different classic indicators of segregation and using thematic cartography made with geographic information systems. Finally, thanks to the use of nominative sources of the civil registry archive, we analyzed marriage patterns of those who arrived from the other side of the mountain range.

Keywords : Migratory studies; Labour market; Residential segregation; Marriage patterns; Regional history.