Objective. Present a reflection on the concepts of forced international migration, the diaspora and reveal the lack of race as a factor that affects thetheoretical readings and constructions when describing the mobilities that occur in Afro-descendant families of Buenaventura in Antofagasta. Methodology. The methodological foundation corresponds to the descriptive qualitative analysis of migratory theories and is based on the decolonial perspective. Results and Discussion. Think about migrations and their relationship with racialized diversities, identifying the exclusion of race in their approaches, an aspect that affects the way in which migrant inclusion and socialization processes are interpreted, narrated or described, and, in turn, changes and / or permanence that occur in family relationships of origin. It alsoidentifies the omission of race, family and its little problematization in migrations.