Abstract

MALLIMACI, Ana Inés. Revisitando la relación entre géneros y migraciones: Resultados de una investigación en Argentina. Mora (B. Aires) [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.2. ISSN 1853-001X.

In recent years witnessed a growing interest on migrant women in the public agenda. One issue that until recently was marginal, is defined as a necessary element of contemporary migration, especially the discourse on the feminization of migration, transnational motherhood and transnational households.      While my analysis comes from the criticism contained in gender studies and feminist to the immigration canon, the investigated case leads me to take some distance from the, now legitimated, scientific discourse on gendered migration.      In this sense, the purposes of the paper are: firstly to show that many of the main categories of the contemporary field of gender studies and migration respond to a type of female migration, that experienced in European and North American countries, which not necessarily contribute to the understanding of migration between Latin American countries. It will further examine the contributions of the gender perspective in understanding the migration of men and women on the basis on the results of research about Bolivian families residing in the city of Ushuaia.      In the present case, Bolivian women move with their families and are often men who play the role of being the backwoodsmen of migration.      Even so, the article proved that these women include economic and productive dimensions in their migration projects. It is this type of migration that has been invisible in classical studies and overshadowed by the discourse of feminization.

Keywords : Migración boliviana; Género; Mujeres; Ushuaia; Bolivian migration; Gender; Women; Ushuaia.