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Immigration in Chile: Immigration in Chile has been one of the most relevant issues during the pandemic. The health crisis has made it evident that a large number of immigrants in Chile live and work in precarious conditions, generally informal work, without a contract and health insurance. Regarding their quality of life, they live crowded, with very high rental prices, and without social security. So, it is an urgency for the Chilean State improve its migration policies and ensure the well-being of migrants of all nationalities. Chilean education: Some people say that education is the most powerful weapon. Education understood as an important part of the socialization of individuals, and as a vital component of social and cultural capital. Now in the case of Chile we must ask ourselves if this powerful weapon will be a weapon for personal growth and the development of our interests, or a business through which some are excluded for the benefit of others. It seems that d...

Martina Silva Aguilar is a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Chile. She was born in a small town in the Aconcagua Valley, where she lived until 2017. During high school she attended to Maximiliano Salas Marchant school and had important positions in the local student organization which helped her develop her group work skills and the ability to overcome adversities. Martina wasn't quite sure what she wanted to study, but the career of sociology seemed the closest thing to his ideal of being able to understand how human beings relate to each other and how to be a contribution to the infinite task of improving these ways of relating. She has developed a great ability to speak in public (even if she is nervous), also is a very hard-working and responsible person. In the near future, she would like to work as a researcher being her areas of interest  education, feminism, environment, and social equality. In her free time, she likes to play soccer, dance wit...