La reproducción de las desigualdades de género en origen y en destino: un estudio transnacional a partir de las migraciones bolivianas

Abstract

The feminist literature on migration indicates that migration is potentially emancipatory for women. However, increasing evidence suggests that this emancipatory potential is temporary, fragmented and at best, limited. This paper adopts a transnational perspective and argues that at origin, migration does lead to some changes in gender relations. However, most of these seem to be temporary in nature. At destination, the types of work carried out by migrants raise questions as to whether these can even be emancipatory. Moreover, these jobs are also a direct subsidy from poorer to richer countries that allow the middle class European families to be reproduced, without a substantial reorganisation of gender relation.