From Mining to Garment Workshops: Bolivian Migrants in Buenos Aires

Bastia, Tanja

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“…España, y el anuncio de la restricción del visado en 2004 (Bastia, 2007(Bastia, , 2011. Además, se argumenta la importancia de la crisis Argentina a finales del año 2000, y los atentados del 11 de septiembre a las Torres gemelas en Nueva York, que endureció las políticas migratorias; así como, el aumento de la demanda de trabajo en el sector de trabajo doméstico y servicio (Hinojosa, 2008(Hinojosa, , 2010Bastia, 2011Bastia, , 2012.…”

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“…Aunque los efectos de la crisis económica en España, desde el año 2008, se han establecido como desencadenantes del retorno de población boliviana. Este se ha relacionado con los efectos en las condiciones de trabajo y a la capacidad de negociación, el aumento de la vulnerabilidad laboral, el miedo de perder a los hijos o estar enferma (Bastia, 2007(Bastia, , 2011.…”

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El papel del Estado en los movimiento inmigratorios de población de origen andino a España en los últimos quince años

García¹

2015

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L Lu uc cí ía a PPé ér re ez z G Ga ar rc cí ía a http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_NOMA.2014.v43.n3.49285Resumen.-Se presenta una descripción cuantitativa de la importancia de las mujeres y personas de origen andino en España, y sus variaciones, sobre todo, desde la década del 2000 hasta la actualidad; destacando el colectivo nacional boliviano como más feminizado y presentando las menores variaciones en el total de población. A partir de tales datos se continúa exponiendo la relación entre los procesos inmigratorios en España, el caso concreto de mujeres de la Región andina, con la estructura del mercado laboral español y distintos mecanismos políticos cómo los Procesos de Regularización, Sistemas de Cuotas, Convenios Bilaterales, imposición del Visado y Políticas de Retorno y Nacionalización, que han incentivado tales procesos migratorios y que condicionarán y determinarán las posiciones sociales de estas mujeres. Palabras clave.-mujeres inmigrantes; Región andina; políticas migratorias; mercado laboralAbstract.-This paper shows a quantitative's importance description of women and people of andean origin in Spain and its variations especially from the 2000s to the present; the Bolivian national collective is highlighted as the more feminized and the one presenting the smallest variations in relation to the totality of population Starting from these data the relationship between immigration processes in Spain with the case of women in the Andean Region, and the structure of Spanish labor market as well as its relationship with different policy mechanisms as Regularization Processes, Quota System, Bilateral Agreements, Visa imposition, Return and Naturalization Policies, which have encouraged such migration processes and that will shape and define the social status of these women.

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El papel del Estado en los movimiento inmigratorios de población de origen andino a España en los últimos quince años

García¹

2015

Nómadas (Madr.)

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“…Argentina has long been a favoured destination for Bolivian migrants (see, for example, Bastia, 2007Bastia, , 2012Grimson, 1999;Preston, 2002). Following the 2001 Argentinean crisis, however, and the devaluation of the Argentine peso, those Bolivians who were compelled to migrate began to look to other destinations as well, and the Bolivian population resident in Argentina declined (Bastia, 2007). Outside Latin America, Spain became popular, particularly as it was not necessary for Bolivians to possess a visa to move to Spain until 2007(Pereira Morató, 2011.…”

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“…In South America, Buenos Aires and São Paulo are known for the abuses of migrant workers (frequently Bolivian) who labour in textile factories dotted throughout the cities (Bastia, 2007;Satie Bermudes, 2012;Tavares de Freitas, 2014). In Santiago, it is not so much with regards to the production but rather the wholesale retail of garments where abuses of labour rights occur.…”

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Living the Chilean dream? Bolivian migrants’ incorporation in the space of economic citizenship

Ryburn

2016

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As with most contexts of South-South migration, the Bolivian-Chilean case remains severely under-researched. Responding to this paucity of research, this paper addresses Bolivian migrants' inclusions in and exclusions from economic citizenship in Chile. Conceptually, the paper calls for a holistic and spatially aware approach to comprehending migration and citizenship, proposing the overarching conceptual framework of interacting transnational social spaces of citizenship representing its legal, political, social, and economic dimensions. It then focuses particularly on the transnational social space of economic citizenship, using this conceptual approach as a means to bring into better dialogue research on the migrant division of labour, precarious employment, lab our exploitation, financial exclusion, and migrant citizenship practices. The analytical potential of the conceptual framework is explored through examining the specific geographies of the Bolivian-Chilean space of economic citizenship to reveal the reality of what is increasingly being referred to as the 'Chilean dream'. Drawing on nine months of multisited ethnography and 76 semi-structured interviews, the paper addresses migrants' economic situation in Bolivia before examining their changes in circumstances following migration to Chile, looking particular at the migrant labour niches of wholesale clothing retail, agriculture, and domestic labour. It explores the structural factors leading to economic marginalisation in Bolivia and labour exploitation in Chile. Additionally, it analyses the practices in which migrants may engage to challenge their exclusion from economic citizenship, and the role that migrant organisations play in encouraging, and at times constraining, such practices.

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“…However, they all face various obstacles at different stages in the migration process in their attempts to do so: deskilling or total nonrecognition of their educational or professional credentials (Kynsilehto, 2011;Rian¬ o, 2011); discriminatory migration policies (Kofman, 2008); ostracism from their own ethnic social networks (Bastia, 2007) or exclusion from certain political organisations such as unions (Piper, 2008b). Moreover, as with their native-born counterparts, migrant women face a gender-stratified labour market where they frequently find themselves in the bottom strata.…”

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Geographies of migration, geographies of justice? Feminism, intersectionality, and rights Migration and social (in)justice are intrinsically linked. Migration is often spurred by social injustices due to lack of opportunities or multiple insecurities, exacerbated by racism and ethnoreligious or gender-based discrimination. By moving to new locations, migrants are often treated as`different' on the basis of their ethnic background, religion, or country of origin and subjected to inferior treatment on the basis of being noncitizens. Gender-based discrimination adds a further, and for women often the most crucial, layer to these complex processes as migrant women leave and enter gendered societies and gender-segregated labour markets and are subjected to gendered migration policies (Piper, 2008a). In this sense, social justice is essentially a transnational (and, thus, spatial) phenomenon affecting migrants at all stages of their migration experience (Weiss, 2005).But migration also has the potential to bring about greater social justice. As migrants undertake short or long journeys to new places, they learn new ways of life, they develop a new perspective on their societies`back home', and they adopt alternative ways of formal political organising and informal coping strategies. Through their actions and activism, whether directly or indirectly, they explore and realise their potential for bringing about greater social justice individually and collectively at both ends of the migration process, effectively creating new relationships across transnational space.The papers in this theme issue address geographies of justice and migration through case studies with migrants from various geographical regions öprimarily South America, Africa, and Asiaöand at different scales. Some address multidirectional migration dynamics while others focus more specifically on a particular sector or smaller level of analysis, such as the household. All are interdisciplinary in spirit and in practice, and are influenced by feminist ethics (hooks, 1999; Kemp and Squires, 1997) and the multiple or varying types of injustices experienced by many women, including migrant women, across the world. How unequal gender relations and genderbased discrimination manifest themselves on a daily basis, however, differs across space (Silvey, 2006). Gendered migrationCross-border migration has been subject to significant changes over the past decades and the feminisation of migration öthat is, the increase in the number and proportion of women engaging in cross-border migrationörepresents one of these significant changes (Castles and Miller, 2009;Samers, 2010). (1) However, while the numerical and proportional increase in migrant women is significant, even more important is the recognition of migration as a gendered process (Donato et al, 2006;Silvey, 2004). Women's modes of entry and their circulation across space differ from men's. These movements tend to have different impacts upon women's and men's respective positions within labour markets as wel...

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From Mining to Garment Workshops: Bolivian Migrants in Buenos Aires

Cited by 52 publications

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El papel del Estado en los movimiento inmigratorios de población de origen andino a España en los últimos quince años

El papel del Estado en los movimiento inmigratorios de población de origen andino a España en los últimos quince años

Living the Chilean dream? Bolivian migrants’ incorporation in the space of economic citizenship

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