Gender, Migration and Social Transformation: Intersectionality in Bolivian Itinerant Migrations
In: Gender, Space and Society Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Spanish terms -- 1. Introduction -- Feminist geographies -- How crises created a transnational community -- Gender and itinerant migrations -- Bolivian migrations in context -- Intersectionality -- Methodology -- Structure of the book -- A note on the use of 'community' -- 2. Gender, migration, and social transformation -- Feminist geographies of migration -- Gender as necessary but not sufficient -- Intersectionality -- Emergent critiques of intersectionality -- Transnationalism -- The emancipatory potential of migration -- Autonomy -- Notes -- 3. Origins -- Tracing elusive origins -- The mining town -- The creation of a new 'community': the informal urban settlement -- Gender relations -- Feminisation of Bolivian migrations -- Gendered mobilities from the Cochabamba neighbourhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Mobility and social networks -- Border crossings -- Social networks -- Sequencing -- Motivation: predominance of the material? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Work -- Work in the mining centre -- Work in Cochabamba after internal migration -- From the mine to garment workshops: work in Argentina -- Spain -- Does migration lead to social mobility? -- Becoming breadwinners -- Notes -- 6. Care -- Negotiating social reproduction in transnational social fields -- Care as a reason for migrating -- Family separations -- The challenges of combining migration with parenting -- Transnational parenting -- Changes in gender roles during separations -- Combining migration with family life -- The migrants' parents -- Conclusion -- 7. Intimacy -- Intimacy and itinerant migration -- Leaving children behind -- Consequences -- Migration and domestic violence.