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The mobilization cycle that began in October 2019 represented a crucial moment in the Chilean democratic trajectory. What began as a protest for the rise of 30 Chilean pesos in the Santiago Metro, quickly took on national demand as the horizon exceeded that specific bid, and became a systemic and structural criticism of the democratic institutions and the constitutional, economic, social and cultural structure inherited from the dictatorship. This social awakening in October not only implied transformations associated to material life. Also the conceptual and theoretical tools that were used to understand social phenomena from spaces of intellectual exercise, such as universities were modified. One of these categories is precisely space and territory, which from the nineties with supported and growing socio-environmental movements, was installed in the repertoire of popular demands. A dimension that was also strongly glimpsed in the October protests: the defence of territories as spaces for life. Based on this, a two-dimensional journey is proposed, first a theoretical conceptual debate and on the other hand a historical approach dealing with the emergence of the concept in recent Chilean history, with the interest of understanding a socio-territorial and historical dimension of what happened in October 2019. ; El ciclo de movilización iniciado en octubre de 2019 representó un momento crucial en la trayectoria democrática chilena. Lo que se inició como una protesta por el alza de 30 pesos chilenos en el Metro de Santiago, rápidamente tomó tintes de movimiento nacional, cuando las demandas puntuales se transformaron en una crítica sistémica y estructural de la conformación democrática, constitucional, política, económica, social y cultural heredada desde la dictadura. Este despertar social de octubre, no solo implicó transformaciones asociadas al plano de la vida material, sino también cambios en torno a las herramientas conceptuales y teóricas que son utilizadas para la comprensión de los fenómenos sociales desde los espacios de ejercicio intelectual, como las universidades. Ejemplos de esas categorías son precisamente el espacio y territorio, conceptos que a partir de la década del noventa, con sostenidos y crecientes movimientos socioambientales, se instalaron en el repertorio de demandas populares, vislumbrando con fuerza una de las consignas de las protestas de octubre: la defensa de los territorios como espacios para la vida. A partir de ello, se propone un recorrido en dos dimensiones; primero un debate conceptual teórico desde la tradición geográfica y, por otro lado, una aproximación histórica de la emergencia de la categoría en la historia reciente chilena, con el interés de comprender una dimensión socio-territorial e histórica de lo acontecido en octubre de 2019.

Background: Exclusionary immigration policies rooted in structural racism threaten the wellbeing of Latinx families, increasing stress, anxiety, depression, and distress among immigrant parents. The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating and disproportionate impacts on communities of color with unique impacts on Latinx immigrant parents in mixed-status families. Aims: From a syndemic theory lens, we explored the convergence of structural racism and the COVID-19 pandemic to explore if the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic may compound harmful immigration-related policies. Methods: Our community-based participatory research cross-sectional study administered 145 surveys among Latinx immigrant parents in mixed-status families in Georgia. We examined the relationship of pandemic stress and perceived statewide immigration policy vulnerability to depressive, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms. We conducted multiple linear regression analyses to test these relationships and their interaction. Results: We found that that greater perceived policy immigration vulnerability and reported pandemic stress were associated with higher symptoms of depression. Increased PTSD symptoms were also associated with immigration policy vulnerability, but not pandemic stress. Tests to assess if pandemic stress strengthened the relationship between policy vulnerability on depressive, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms revealed no statistically significant interactions. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and longstanding anti-immigrant policies in Georgia were salient for and related to the mental health of these Latinx immigrant parents.