Abstract

ARIZA, Marina  and  JIMENEZ CHAVES, Luis Felipe. Female Migration and Intersectionality: The Reproductive Work of Latin American Immigrants in Mexico. Rev. interdiscip. estud. género Col. Méx. [online]. 2022, vol.8, e957.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 2395-9185.  https://doi.org/10.24201/reg.v8i1.957.

Quantitative methods are used to examine differences in the amount of intra-domestic reproductive work performed by Latin American immigrants from six countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina, and Cuba) in Mexico in 2015 from an intersectional perspective. The results show significant differences in the likelihood of having to cope with increasing loads of unpaid labor at home, revealing that those born in Honduras are at a disadvantage compared to Colombian, Cuban, and Argentine women, which denotes the significant social distances that separate them. They highlight the centrality of the family explored through two variables (stage of the family life cycle and marital union), and the country of origin as an expression of baseline structural inequalities, as factors that promote high reproductive workloads in female Latin American immigrants in relation to other vectors of intersectionality.

Keywords : female migration; Latin America; Mexico; reproductive labor; intersectionality.

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