Abstract

ALVES QUINTANA, Johanna Marianny. Chama, How Do You Manage to Live Here? Work, Reproduction of Life, Shares Experiences of Venezuelan Women in Córdoba, Argentina. Rev. interdiscip. estud. género Col. Méx. [online]. 2024, vol.10, e1045.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 2395-9185.  https://doi.org/10.24201/reg.v10i1.1045.

This article shares an analytical characterization of the meanings and strategies deployed by Venezuelan women in Córdoba (Argentina) to reproduce life and their close linkage with certain forms of managing shared experiences. Through an ethnographic approach, supported by in-depth interviews and participant observation, I study the migratory and life experiences of Rosa and Jenny, in which the inequalities in the world of work and the ways in which they cope with them are revealed, in a way that encompasses their places of origin, travel itineraries, and destination. “How do you make a living here?” is a question that takes us into their domestic kitchens as production units and into their involvement in fairs within the popular economy. From these spaces and dynamics they restore their subjectivity, establish cooperative links, and guarantee the material and immaterial sustenance of life. The study proposes an ongoing map of existing tensions between the domestic sphere and the production of shared experiences for the reproduction of life in contexts of migration.

Keywords : migrants; gender studies; labor precariousness; women entrepreneurs.