Migration as Protest? Negotiating Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Urban Bolivia

Bibliographic Data

ID4139312
AuthorsTanja Bastia (0000-0002-2025-7706, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume43
Issue7
Pages1514-1529
Publication date2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a43365
OpenAlexW1991268312
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited41

Feminist geographies of migration are often based on the assumption that migration brings about social change, potentially disrupting patriarchal structures and bringing about new spaces where gender relations can be renegotiated and reconfigured. On the basis of multisited research conducted with migrants from the same community of origin in Bolivia, I analyse how gender, class, and ethnicity are renegotiated through internal and cross-border migration. A transnational, multi-scalar, multisited, and intersectional approach is applied to the study of social change through migration, with the aim of investigating whether labour migration provides avenues for greater gender equality. At the individual level there are certainly indications that women achieve greater independence through migration. However, the multiscalar and intersectional analysis suggests that women trade 'gender gains' for upward social mobility in the class hierarchy. By doing so, they also contribute to the reproduction of patriarchal social relations

Gender relations · Independence · Internal migration · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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