Between crisis, agency and return: the vulnerability of Bolivian migrants in Italy

Between crisis, agency and return: the vulnerability of Bolivian migrants in Italy

This article addresses the interrelationships between the economic crisis, international migration and the labour market, and their impact on female migration agency, both in the decision to migrate and in the subsequent possibility of return to Bolivia. Based on information collected in a large sur...

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Main Authors: Isabel Yépez del Castillo, Mirko Marzadro
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 2014-09-01
Series:Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Subjects:
international migration and the labour market
and their impact on female migration agency
both in the decision to migrate and in the subsequent possibility of return to Bolivia. Based on information collected in a large survey conducted in the city of Cochabamba and the tracing of multiple female migration trajectories
the extreme vulnerability of these women
who are the heads of single-parent households
working in elderly care in Bergamo
is shown. Despite their deteriorating working conditions in the context of current Italian economic crisis and the competition of immigrant care workers from countries of Eastern Europe
Bolivia
migration
Italy
single-parent households
crisis
return
gender
Online Access:http://www.cidob.org/en/content/download/58921/1535693/version/2/file/129-150_ISABEL%20YEPEZ.pdf

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