The understanding of international migrations constitutes one of the main challenges of the social sciences today, as an inherent effect of the post-Fordist capitalist model, within a post-colonial historical context. The reflection framework is located in the national and transnational sphere, and involves processes, co-productions and links between nation-states, which implies the crossing of limits and the establishment of culture in micro-spaces, mainly urban, in foreign territories. In three decades the challenge has gone from the problem of identity, asymmetric relationships with others and assimilation, to the issue of recognition and citizenship rights, transcending the dichotomy between origin and destination, as well as between center and periphery. The trip, the exchanges, the networks, the installation, and services that open and close, are only some perspectives of a constellation of problems and objects that complicate his reflection. This work presents some analytical and theoretical results of the South-South migratory process, based on a permanent flow of reception of migrants in Chile, within a neoliberal and refractory political scheme in the economic sphere, which makes it difficult to read the impacts on populations and communities.