AFROCHILENOS: FROM LEGAL RECOGNITION TO CONSTITUTIONAL DENIAL
Topics: Black Geographies
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Keywords: Afrochilenos, constitutional recognition, tribal peoples, ancestral territories, structural racism
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 09:40 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 11:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 81
Authors:
Cristian Baez, ONG AFROCHILENA LUMBANGA
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Abstract
In April 2019, the Chilean State legally recognized the Afro-descendant tribal people in Chile, a law that recognizes the African presence in Chilean territory, a product of the transatlantic slave trade, recognizing their cultural identity, language, historical tradition, culture, institutions and worldview. The law legally grants Afro-Chileans the condition of a "people", a title that States have been resistant to using, defining us Afro-descendant people, rather, as ethnic groups, people and / or communities--although there are few countries that define us under that condition--and Chile is the only country that recognizes them as “tribal peoples”, based on ILO Convention 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples. This agreement, in its interpretation and practice, strongly puts in place in the definition and protection of Afro-Chilean ancestral territories, as the main axis of their development and sustainability over time as peoples, opening the way for the recognition of their ancestral territories throughout Chile.
But despite the recognition, in December 2020, the State of Chile denied them participation with a “reserved seat” in the constituent process, perpetuating systematic structural racism towards our people. This process is currently in full discussion and construction for a new fundamental charter for Chile, in which the Afro-Chilean people are fighting and influencing from outside in the search for our constitutional recognition that in some way, by achieving this objective, will establish the path towards a historical repair and visibility of its culture and its territories within Chile.
AFROCHILENOS: FROM LEGAL RECOGNITION TO CONSTITUTIONAL DENIAL
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