Exercising rights from below:

Housing, gender, migration and the right to the city from Antofagasta, Chile

Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa in conversation with Camila Cociña and Ana Sugranyes

Keywords: Informal settlements, Human Rights, Chile, right to the city, gender

Abstract:

Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa is a woman, migrant, activist, and housing leader of the informal settlement of Los Arenales in Antofagasta, on the coastal edge of the Atacama Desert, Chile. In 2022, she was awarded the National Human Rights Award precisely because of her work on social rights, women’s rights, migrants’ rights, and above all, her work on the right to housing and to the city. In this Conversation with Camila and Ana, Eli reflects on her personal and collective history, on the construction of the right to housing and the city from precarious, popular or informal settlements, on the organisation of women in the context of crisis and violence, and on the progress and expansion of human rights from their everyday exercise.

https://doi.org/10.54825/RQJH3553

Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa is a community leader at the informal settlement of Los Arenales, Antofagasta, Chile. She was awarded the National Human Rights Award in 2022 because of her extensive work as a human rights activist.

Camila Cociña is a researcher on housing justice at the International Institute for Environment and Development, IIED. She is based in Santiago, Chile, and member of the Radical Housing Journal.

Ana Sugranyes is an architect and PhD, Chilean and Catalan, and an active member of the Habitat International Coalition. She has worked for 45 years alongside processes of social production of habitat.

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