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

Autores/as

  • Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Professor of Sociology. University of Southern California
  • Emir Estrada Professor of Sociology. University of Southern California
  • Hernan Ramírez Professor of Sociology. University of Southern California

Resumen

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.

Palabras clave: sector informal; género; trabajadores inmigrantes; masculinidades; juventud.

Palabras clave

sector informal, género, trabajadores inmigrantes, masculinidades, juventud.

Biografía del autor/a

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Professor of Sociology. University of Southern California

Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research has focused on gender and migration, informal sector work, and religion and the immigrant rights social movement. Most of these studies focus on Mexican and Central American immigrant communities, but she has also researched Muslim American immigrants in the post-9/11 era. She has authored or edited eight books, and she has held research and writing fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. She was given a Mellon Excellence in Mentoring Award for her work with graduate students, and the book Domestica won seven awards, including the Max Weber and the C.Wright Mills book awards.

Emir Estrada, Professor of Sociology. University of Southern California

Emir Loy received a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Chicano/a Studies from UCLA. Her research interests in immigration and gender are influenced in great part by her own immigration experience. She is studying immigrants from Mexico and Central America who work in the informal sector of unregulated or semi-regulated jobs. More specifically, she is researching the children of these workers, examining their role in the family’s economic survival.

Hernan Ramírez, Professor of Sociology. University of Southern California

Hernan is currently working on his dissertation, which examines socioeconomic mobility among self-employed Mexican immigrant gardeners and their U.S.-born children. He has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio, and was recently awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. His research interests encompass ethnic entrepreneurship, immigration, gender and work, and the informal sector. A native Angeleno and son of a "jardinero," he welcomes questions about residential maintenance gardening, an important occupational niche for Mexican immigrant men in the Los Angeles region and throughout the U.S.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers/v96n3.263

Publicado

2011-07-01

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