Más allá de la domesticidad. Un análisis de género de los trabajos de los inmigrantes en el sector informal

• Autores: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
• Localización: Papers: revista de sociología, ISSN-e 2013-9004, ISSN 0210-2862, Vol. 96, Nº 3, 2011, págs. 805-824
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/papers/v96n3.263
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  • español

    El género es una característica constitutiva de las relaciones económicas y sociales. En el presente documento, se examina cómo el género está íntimamente ligado al aumento de las ocupaciones del sector informal entre los nuevos inmigrantes. Nos centramos en tres empleos en el sector informal que se han institucionalizado como ocupaciones de inmigrantes latinos en Los Ángeles, California: el trabajo doméstico remunerado, el mantenimiento de jardines en zonas residenciales y la venta ambulante. El análisis de género es comúnmente empleado en los estudios sobre las mujeres migrantes que trabajan en el sector doméstico remunerado, considerado durante mucho tiempo como un paradigma «natural» de empleo femenino. El género, sin embargo, no se limita a la esfera del hogar o al espacio exclusivamente considerado como perteneciente a las mujeres, sino que es una condición que afecta a todas las personas y a los distintos sectores de la sociedad. Nosotros sostenemos que la próxima etapa de la investigación sobre género y migración requerirá ampliar el análisis de género a nuevos escenarios, incluyendo a los hombres y a los jóvenes en las esferas públicas, por ello ofrecemos un análisis de las continuidades y las discontinuidades del género en estos contextos diversos

  • English

    Gender is a constitutive feature of economic and social relations, and in this paper we examine how gender is intimately bound up with the rise of informal sector occupations among new immigrants. We focus on three informal sector jobs that are widely accepted as Latino immigrant jobs in Los Angeles, California: paid domestic work; suburban garden maintenance; and street vending. Gendered analysis is commonly employed instudies of migrant women working in paid domestic work, long regarded as a paradigmatic �natural� job for women. Gender, however, is not only confined to the domestic sphere nor exclusively attached to women, but rather it is a system that affects all people, and different sectors of society. We argue that the next stage of gender and migration research will require extending gendered analysis to new arenas, including men and youths in the public sphere, and we offer an analysis of the continuities and discontinuities of gender in these diverse contexts.

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