Various regions have recently proposed the creation of clusters around large-scale mining. However, until the 1986s, mining regions were predominantly considerer productive enclaves. This article analyzes the case of the Antofagasta Region, the main mining region in Chile. A descriptive analysis...

Research on internal migration has been traditionally based on a banal conception of space, without taking into account how regional representations, the social construction of space, affect the decision of migrating to another region. This work uses the methodologies of discussion group and...