Women’s Rural Migrations in Argentina: A Case Study

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to rescue a set of experiences recounted by poor women from a rural area of Argentina (the province of Misiones) about their own migrations during the decade of the nineties. The social, political and economic conditions in a regional and rural environment will be emphasized from an anthropological perspective, in order to explain these women’s movements in the aforementioned decade. I will tackle several “case studies” – reconstructed through these women’s own narratives– such us the almost continuous act of migration, the need to set in motion certain social networks that make migration feasible, the shaping of those conflicts that make them move, the strategies of re-accommodation once they arrive in the city, etc.