Bernardo Navarrete Yánez is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Chile. He has been Visiting Scholar in Political Science at the Center For Latin American Studies at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Government and Public Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has published five books on parties, public policy, and local government. Eighteen book chapters from 2010 to date, on party, public policy, immigration and local government issues and seventeen articles in indexed journals, under the same themes. His latest publications are: (2020) Book editor "Hacia la gobernanza del refugio y el asilo en Chile". Ril Editores and (2019) "La inmigración en la agenda de seguridad en Chile. Las nuevas amenazas en los libros de la defensa nacional". Estudios Internacionales N° 193 pp. 37-63. (2019)

Victor Tricot is lecturer of Political Science at the University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, and Academic Director for SIT Study Abroad, Spain: Policy, Law, and Regional Autonomy in Europe. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Political Processes and a Master in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Salamanca, Spain. His research and writing have been mainly about social movements in Latin America and indigenous movements, particularly the Mapuche movement in Chile and Argentina. His research findings have been published in different academic and non-academic journals.