Gender and labor mobility: Bolivian feminine workers in the garment industry in São Paulo

• Grant number: 15/16841-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2016
• End date: November 01, 2018
• 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
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/15299-2 - Gender and labor mobility: Bolivian feminine workers in the garment industry in São Paulo, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The Bolivian migration flow employed in the garment industry of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo presents as a tendency its feminization. This project aims to investigate the gender relations in this migration groups. Therefore, the research articulates the concepts of labor mobility and value-dissociation to study the Bolivian immigrant women, investigating the particular conditions of insertion in the destiny society and the constitution of a gender hierarchy in the sewing shops. The mobilization of Bolivian women to São Paulo is analyzed in the context of a crisis of the abstract labor that shows its precarization. As a method, we adopted the field work with non-directive interviews with Bolivian immigrant women, visits to sewing shops in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo and a field trip to Bolivia that contemplates the analysis of gender relations in the origin society.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

RIBEIRO, Clara Lemme. Gender and labor mobility: Bolivian female workers in the garment industry of Sao Paulo. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.