Chilean Student Movement of 2011 and their impact on citizen claims from the regionalist margins

Abstract

One of the most significant social conflicts in Chile in 2011, was the student movement, which together with various social actors, promoted the slogan of democracy and quality in public education. Under this argument, this paper aims to analyze and describe how the Chilean Student Movement started in 2011, triggers citizen empowerment against political and economic system in favor of a welfare state transverse to the different social sectors. We explore also the repercussions in this movement for the formulation of new demands from regionalist margins in order to interpret the growing discontent and need oriented organizational break with the inequality gap in Chile.