Resumen

GERBAUDO-SUAREZ., Débora. Migrations, gender and youth work: Overlapping transitions in popular sectors of Argentina. Íconos [online]. 2025, n.81, pp.33-50. ISSN 1390-8065.  https://doi.org/10.17141/iconos.81.2025.6222.

This article explores the trajectories of young Paraguayan families living in peripheral neighborhoods of Greater Buenos Aires, exploring their relationship with labor markets and with the city they live in. Thus, the object of study is constituted by migrants and by those who were born in Argentina but live in transnational households. A collaborative ethnography was carried out involving participant observation and interviews with young people and their families, peer groups, and community organizations. The results demonstrate that they are young people from lower classes and that they face exclusion from the labor market in segregated socio-urban spaces. Although the results make visible the particularities of these youth transitions, intersectional inequalities are evident regarding experiences of gender, ethnicity, race, and class, linked to the migratory conditions of their families. In conclusion, their insertion in precarious jobs associated with migrant labor niches generates identity in urban spaces and reproduces class inequalities among families. In turn, although the transitions of young women reflect greater inequalities due to gender and class stereotypes, they also show that through community care work they dispute their right to the city from a feminist perspective.

Palabras clave : Argentina; social inequality; urban spaces; gender; youth; migration.

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