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Book SynopsisBolivian Labor Immigrants'' Experiences in Argentina examines key issues regarding the structural factors that pattern the integration of Bolivian immigrants in labor markets segmented by inequalities based on class, gender, ethnicity/race, nationality, and migratory and legal status. The book provides ethnographic insights about the various ways in which Bolivian immigrants experience harsh living and working conditions in Argentina, demonstrating that these men and women are capable of dealing with oppressive situations and of performing particular ways of resistance.The book also refers to the trajectories of some Bolivians who had previously migrated to Spain and returned to Argentina after the European crisis in 2008. And it compares the south-south labor migration from Bolivia to Argentina with the north-north one from Tajikistan to the Russian Federation. The focus on labor migrants does not lead to a reductionist economic analysis of their trajectories, experiences, and prospec
Trade ReviewThis timely collection on Bolivian labor migration to Argentina fills a void in migration studies. There is so little in English on labor migrations in the Southern Cone of South America or on South-South migrations more generally. While Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay have long sent migrants to Argentina, the Bolivian migration has been the longest lived and most persistent, a feature that this book traces in rural and urban Bolivian settlements in Argentina since the nineteenth century through many vivid ethnographic descriptions. The volume also provides an excellent account of the difficulties faced by Bolivian migrants crossing the border into Argentina, despite the ideal of free movement legislated by that state, and the barriers of social class, ethnicity and gender that continue to hamper their lives in the new country. While Bolivians are included in the labor market, they are excluded from welfare and other benefits of citizenship. Another gem this book offers is a comparative framework to other labor migrations: Bolivians in Spain, and Tajiks in Russia. -- Judith Noemí Freidenberg, University of Maryland, College Park
Table of ContentsIntroduction Cynthia Pizarro Chapter 1: Migration and Labour Market in Horticulture. Bolivian Families in the Middle Valley of Río Negro, Argentine Patagonia Verónica Trpin and Ana Ciarallo Chapter 2: Segmented Labor Market and Migratory Identity Constructions in Two Horticultural Areas in the Province of Salta Soraya Ataide and Roberto Benencia Chapter 3: Differential Migration Trajectories of Bolivian Women Working in Horticultural Fields in Mendoza City Martha Silvia Moreno Fiore and Cynthia Pizarro Chapter 4: Intersection of Inequalities. Migration Trajectories, Labor Experiences and Family Life of Bolivian Women in the Outskirts of Buenos Aires and Cordoba Cities. Cynthia Pizarro Chapter 5: Moving Across Argentina: Family, Work and Gender Roles in the Migration of Bolivian Women to Córdoba and Ushuaia María José Magliano and Ana Mallimaci Barral Chapter 6: Practices of Resistance among Young Bolivian Immigrants Working in a Brick Factory in Cordoba City Mariana Ferreiro, Cynthia Pizarro and Lourdes Basualdo Chapter 7: Practices of Resistance of Latin American Immigrants to “New” Ways of Discrimination exerted by Authorities and Citizens of Central Countries. The Case of the Bolivians in Spain Roberto Benencia Chapter 8: Trajectories and Lives of Labor Migrants in Perspective: from Bolivia to Argentina and from Tajik to Russia Cynthia Pizarro and Sergey Ryazantsev About the Contributors Index
