Education and interculturality in Chile: a framework for analysis

Societies are undoubtedly subject to continuing change. But we do not know exactly how deep these changes are, where they lead to, the interrelations of the various aspects involved, its effects in other fields and how, as these are modified, they bring about transformations that change the various fields anew. In this scenario of movements and counter movements it is not only difficult but fanciful to establish causal relationships to comprehend social phenomena. To believe that migrants per se cause the effects and demands they are assigned with – such as the displacement of domestic workers from labor markets, the lack of security of the neighborhoods they live in, the increase of crime rates, drug trafficking and, at present, terrorism – can work in political nationalist discourse, but not in the argumentative debate that should characterize the academic world.