Mobility and building of new territoriality in the border between chile and argentina

From the definition of the National States in the South hemisphere the frontier have been thought as means of differentiation and spaces of international cooperation. However, the processes of integration and the neoliberal policies applied in the region during the 90s have fed the speeches of the building of a common territory and the end of national states borders. These speeches and the associated rules have let the creation of a new territory in the sphere established as binational. Thus, the mining complex Pascua Lama and Veladero (Iglesia, San Juan-III y IV Region, Chile) has turned into a geographical place where just one transnational mining company can “affect, influence, control persons, phenomena and relations” (Sack.1986). While the transnational capital defines almost freely its place of production and reproduction, the shepherds and baqueanos see that their mobility within the frontier is restricted by a group of sanitary rules which make it difficult to develop their activity like the placing of some crafts production in the market because they are not local ones. Is it possible to create mechanisms to make frontier not to turn into spheres of free capital actions? How can anyone grant a place of living to those moving inhabitants who found their way of living in the dynamic of the frontier? Which strategies would it be necessary to implement so that the shepherds and baqueanos can go on developing the familiar economic activity which was a legacy from their ancestors?