"As always, we are all extra white". An analysis of the ways in which young women activists in the Partido de General Pueyrredon conceive migration

Abstract

The Partido de General Pueyrredón (GP) is inhabited by a large border migrant population, which is feminized. This feminization becomes relevant due to the inequalities suffered by migrant women. Reports show that they are inserted in poorly paid and precarious jobs, as a result of the segmentation of the local labor market. Likewise, previous studies indicate that their access to institutions is often complex, in a context in which no public policies have been developed to address their problems and there are no political organizations that bring migrants together under this category and express their demands in the public space. On the other hand, feminist calls in GP have a great massiveness, and young women, mostly students, are the ones who reappropriate the main demands of current feminisms. In this sense, we consider that analyzing the ways in which those who largely make up the local feminist militancy conceive migrations and the possible problems and demands associated with them becomes central, as it allows us to review the place that these problems could have when making claims from feminisms. We wonder if and how racialization and migratory origin appear as inequality cleavages in the young women's testimonies. Likewise, if they are aware of the specific problems faced by migrant women in GP. We answer these questions based on an approach of quantitative data records of migrations in GP, and non-directive in-depth interviews with activists of the Party. As will be seen, migrations appear as relevant cleavages, although in an abstract and general way. At the same time, the young women are not aware of the concrete problems faced by migrants. However, when it comes to social class, gender identity or sexuality, they know and reappropriate the demands, which allows us to think of a hierarchization of these inequality cleavages.