Abstract

MIRANDA-JUAREZ, Sarai. Domestic child labor and violence in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas 2017-2018. Pap. poblac [online]. 2020, vol.26, n.106, pp.105-130.  Epub Nov 03, 2021. ISSN 2448-7147.  https://doi.org/10.22185/24487147.2020.106.32.

This article´s objective is to identify violences that intersect among domestic workers girls and adolescents in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas. It makes a special emphasis on the racial violence associated with the ethnical origin and migratory condition. The study applied a quantitative methodology, including several strategies implemented from July 2017 to July 2018. Semi-structured interviews were applied to indigenous and inmigrant girls and adolescents from Guatemala who perform domestic work in third-party households as well as to other involved actors. The research observed systematic violences related to ethnicity, gender, age, and migratory condition. Such violences are exercised in a local context characterized by global inertia permeates by fear and insecurity concerning the foreign. The article also shows the renewal of xenophobic and stigmatizing discourses of the oligarchy and the middle classes, which at exerting violence benefit themselves of domestic work and care at a very low cost.

Keywords : Violences; domestic workers girls; Tapachula; Mexico.

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