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| Author(s): |
Patricia Tavares de Freitas
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2014-03-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Rosana Aparecida Baeninger;
Pedro Peixoto;
Jacob Lima;
Angela Maria Carneiro Araújo;
Sidney Antonio da Silva
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| Advisor: | Rosana Aparecida Baeninger |
| Abstract | |
In this thesis, we address the Bolivian insertion in São Paulo and Buenos Aires clothing industry from the hypothesis of ethnic economy. We argue that the social process that explain this insertion, and both the work relations and the work place in which Bolivian immigrants work are not the same of the Brazilian and Argentinean sewers. The empirical research is based on life narratives of Bolivian immigrants about, on one hand, their socio-spatial pathways and previous working life, and, on another hand, their social experience in the clothing industry of their host cities. The interviews were held in the cities of São Paulo, in Brazil, and Cochabamba, La Paz, El Alto and Escoma (rural municipality of the Andean highlands) with Bolivians that, at some point in their lives, worked on São Paulo or Buenos Aires clothing industry. Instead of the image commonly associated with this labor insertion, of impoverished migrants who leave their home regions and, at the host societies, fit into de labor market of sewing workshops, we have found immigrants that leave their homes at Bolivia with a guaranteed work at São Paulo or Buenos Aires. In this sense, rather migration projects culminating in the clothing industry, we have found "sewing projects", with migration as part of a work agreement held in Bolívia (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/18504-0 - Migration, work and family: the Bolivian workers of São Paulo garment industry |
| Grantee: | Patricia Tavares de Freitas |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |