Labour mobility and feminine migrations: Bolivian women in São Paulo

• Grant number: 13/15308-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Heinz Dieter Heidemann
• Grantee: Clara Lemme Ribeiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present undergraduate research project main objective is to analyze the migration of Bolivian women to the city of São Paulo, a migratory flux that is in a plain process of feminization. The fundamental concepts are labor mobility (GAUDEMAR, 1977) and value-dissociation (SCHOLZ, 2011), put to movement in a critical context of labor precarization and flexibilization. The first step of the project a yearlong literature search, aiming for a solid construction of the main analytical concepts. The field research includes, at first, interviewing the staff of social assistance institutions for migrants, then with Bolivian women themselves, focusing labor and family relations established after their arrival at São Paulo. Through such conversations, it will be possible to analyze the formation of social networks and those women's processes of insertion in the Brazilian society. By the end, the researcher's goal is to develop a consistent reflection regarding feminine migration in the present historical context.