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Gender, Migration and Social Transformation: Intersectionality in Bolivian Itinerant Migrations

Gender, Migration and Social Transformation: Intersectionality in Bolivian Itinerant Migrations

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Series: Gender, Space and Society

General SociologyGeographyImmigration & Refugees

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ISBN10: 0367728230
ISBN13: 9780367728236
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 180
Language: English

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, make sense of the migration journeys they have undertaken.



Migration is intrinsically related to social transformation. Through life stories and community surveys, the author explores how gender, class, and ethnicity intersect in people's attempts to make the most of the opportunities presented to them in distant labour markets. While aiming to improve their economic and material conditions, migrants have created a new transnational community that has undergone significant changes in the ways in which gender relations are organised. Women went from being mainly housewives to taking on the role of the family's breadwinner in a matter of just one decade.

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