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Servitude and slave trade: the case of Bolivian immigrants who work in clandestine textile workshops of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
Alejandro Goldberg (Goldberg, A.);
Título Revista
Miradas en Movimiento
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2012
Língua
Inglês
País
Argentina
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Abstract/Resumo
Part of the Bolivian immigrant workforce in Argentina was recruited in their country of origin through local agents that belong to an organized network of human traffickers. The end result is the exploitation of manpower in semi-slavery conditions in clandestine textile workshops in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (BAMA). The presence of three different types of crimes can be pointed out: 1) human trafficking; 2) human slave trafficking (?trata?) and 3) slavery. Our general hypothesis is that the trafficking networks are articulated through ?migratory paths? that are used for two purposes: for gathering workers and for their later retention in the clandestine textile workshops. Their migratory paths expose them to certain structural processes and life experiences. Focusing on the sufferings, diseases, pains and ailments ? among which tuberculosis stands out as a disease with a growing incidence in this group, linked to their work and their way of life in our society.
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Palavras-chave
Bolivian migration,Human slave trafficking networks,Clandestine textile workshops,Work and living conditions,Tuberculosis