"We can't demand anything:" Migrants' practices of accommodation and urban incorporation in an autoconstructed settlement in Santiago, Chile.

The article examines how international migrants in Santiago, Chile, respond to the housing crisis by autoconstructing homes in campamentos (informal squatter settlements), focusing on the large migrant-led settlement Un Nuevo Amanecer. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic research, it highlights that migrants produce a form of political subjectivity grounded in an ethics of civility and individual accommodation rather than collective rights-based claims, even as they engage in shared community life and informal economies. This dynamic reflects migrants' defensive strategies to assert their social citizenship amid stigmatization, exclusion, and restrictive migration policies, revealing new forms of urban incorporation and belonging shaped by neoliberal housing markets and migration regimes. The study contrasts these contemporary migrant-led settlements with earlier politicized Chilean housing movements, emphasizing migrants' aspirations for inclusion through self-made housing and moral comportment rather than explicit demands for universal rights.