Migrations, family work and gender: horticulture in General Pueyrredon

Abstract

e thesis addressed the horticultural, domestic and
care work carried out by Bolivian women and their daughters in
the horticultural farms of General Pueyrredon, placing people
and their experiences at the centre of the analysis. e focus was
placed on the experiences of the workers within their domestic
groups and the interactions they establish with the community
and the state agents that circulate in the fruit and vegetable
sector, in order to observe the inequalities and asymmetries that
are constituted between them. e overlapping of domestic and
market work spaces that takes place in the farms was central
to the thesis. In this overlapping, the activities of "public life"
- paid work - and "private life" - domestic and care work - are
carried out simultaneously and produce different effects on their migratory and labour trajectories. In this context, we show the
sexual division of labour, the changes produced in it by the
commodification of production work aer migration, while we
analyse how this sexual division of labour, family status and
generation have effects on access to resources and decisions about
paid family work. Finally, we analyse the ways in which state
agents intervene to produce meanings about care and parenting
in the context of this overlapping of jobs with extended working
hours and seasonal demands.