Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaMothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction
In the province of Jujuy, located on the northern border of Argentina and Bolivia, the widespread image of the “Bolivian pregnant woman who crosses the border to give birth on the Argentine side” orders a great deal of the perceptions, views and ideals of many Argentineans. Themes relating to materi...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2007
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| description | In the province of Jujuy, located on the northern border of Argentina and Bolivia, the widespread image of the “Bolivian pregnant woman who crosses the border to give birth on the Argentine side” orders a great deal of the perceptions, views and ideals of many Argentineans. Themes relating to material resources, to rights of citizenship and to meanings and feelings of belonging appear in stories and statements that reject and condemn these women. How are we to interpret the reactions that these women’s actions provoke? What fears and anxieties are provoked by such border crossing? This paper shows that Bolivian women who cross the border are seen as a societal disturbance, and embody a double threat to “integrity”: to social integrity, understood as a system of regulated inequality, and to national/racial integrity, understood as a holistic ethnic community. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-2202024-04-23T19:45:22Z Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction Madres en la frontera: género, nación y los peligros de la reproducción Caggiano, Sergio nación fronteras reproducción biológica reproducción social género clase social raza Argentina Bolivia borders biological reproduction social reproduction gender social class race Argentina Bolivia In the province of Jujuy, located on the northern border of Argentina and Bolivia, the widespread image of the “Bolivian pregnant woman who crosses the border to give birth on the Argentine side” orders a great deal of the perceptions, views and ideals of many Argentineans. Themes relating to material resources, to rights of citizenship and to meanings and feelings of belonging appear in stories and statements that reject and condemn these women. How are we to interpret the reactions that these women’s actions provoke? What fears and anxieties are provoked by such border crossing? This paper shows that Bolivian women who cross the border are seen as a societal disturbance, and embody a double threat to “integrity”: to social integrity, understood as a system of regulated inequality, and to national/racial integrity, understood as a holistic ethnic community. En la provincia de Jujuy, en la frontera norte de Argentina con Bolivia, la figura “típica” de “la mujer boliviana embarazada que cruza la frontera para parir del lado argentino” ordena gran parte de las percepciones y valoraciones de muchos argentinos. Recursos materiales, derechos de ciudadanía y sentidos de pertenencia comparecen en relatos y afirmaciones de rechazo a estas mujeres y sus prácticas. El artículo muestra cómo las mujeres bolivianas que cruzan la frontera son vistas como factor perturbador y revelan una doble amenaza a la “integridad”: a una integridad social entendida como desigualdad regulada y a una integridad nacional/racial entendida como comunidad de sangre. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2007-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/220 10.17141/iconos.28.2007.220 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 28 (2007): Dossier: Género y nación en América Latina; 93-106 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 28 (2007): Dossier: Género y nación en América Latina; 93-106 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 28 (2007): Dossier: Gender and nation in Latin America ; 93-106 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/220/216 Derechos de autor 2013 Sergio Caggiano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Caggiano, Sergio Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| title | Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| title_full | Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| title_fullStr | Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| title_short | Mothers crossing borders: Gender, Nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| title_sort | mothers crossing borders: gender, nation, and the dangers of reproduction |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/220 |