Institucionalidad indígena / de género y políticas públicas dirigidas a mujeres indígenas en Chile: los casos de CONADI y SERNAM

Abstract

This article focuses on the relationship between gender/
indigenous institutionality and public policies addressed
to indigenous women in two Chilean state agencies:
the National Corporation for Indigenous Development
(CONADI) and the National Service for Women
(SERNAM) - Ministry for Women and Gender Equity.
To begin with, we present the conditions for the
emergence of that institutionality and describe its main
features. Then, we assess the different types of policies
and programs for indigenous women implemented by the
above mentioned state agencies.The corpus comprises documentary
material and in-depth interviews carried out
in Chile to public servants and indigenous women. They
were interviewed between May and July 2016 in the
Metropolitan, Arica y Parinacota and Araucanía regions.