ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up the question of sedentary anarchists in order to think through questions of place and anarchism. It looks at the case of one individual in particular Casimiro Barrios, the first person ordered expelled from Chile after the passage of its Residency Law in December 1918. In addition, the administration was able to marshal the support it needed with some strategic shenanigans to pass the Residency Law in early December, only weeks after the November demonstration. The law did a number of things: it prohibited entrance into, or residency in, Chile by undesirable elements. The historiographical insult to the sedentary anarchists of Santiago, Valparaiso, and elsewhere who in fact organized and sustained the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movement in the Chilean region. This is not to suggest one reverse the polarities, as if everything ideologically original emerged from a hermetically sealed Chile.
