Retórica humanitaria y expulsabilidad: migrantes haitianos y gobernabilidad migratoria en Chile

This article analyzes the link between humanitarian and human rights considerations and the restrictive and indirectly expulsion-orientated effect of recent measures taken in Chile with respect to Haitian migrants. The text reveals that the strategy of appealing to humanitarian rhetoric represents a central element of the paradigm of migratory governance, and is an approach that supports the global regime for the management/control of migration, one that has been materializing in the Chilean State's consideration of international migration since the mid-2000s. These measures are also connected with those adopted by other South American countries, in a scenario of the regionalization of this regime.