Abstract

AZCOITIA, Alfredo  and  BARELLI, Ana Inés. The representations of chilean migrants in the speech of the norpatagonic church (argentina) in the framework of the beagle conflict (1977-1985). Soc. relig. [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.54, pp.28-54. ISSN 0326-9795.

At the end of the seventies, the dispute over the delimitation of the Beagle Channel opened a stage in relations between Argentina and Chile marked by a growing tension that was about to lead to a war. In this context, the article proposes to analyze the way in which the Norpatagonian Church intervened in the public arena the discourses that built Chile as an "expansion ist neighbor". We will begin by going through the regional press in order to give an account of the characteristics and circulation of theses speeches in order to deal with the way in which the Argentine Church confront edit. Finally, we will focus on the analysis of the public interventions of the Norpatagonian Church, to identify its uniqueness when antagonizing xenophobic representations, which circulated profusely in there gion with the greatest presence of Chilean migration in the country. Among the main conclusions of the work is that against the war-peace binarism that builds the confrontation between the nationalist territorial discourse and the clerical, the Norpatagónica Church is inscribed in the latter but from its own perspective that introduces the Chilean migrant as the central actor of the drama that lurked

Keywords : Church; Norpatagonia; Beagle; Discourse.