Connecting territories in crisis: migrant and non-migrant women facing extractive scenarios between Paraguay and Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes women's life reproduction strategies in two different but structurally connected contexts: Paraguayan migrants settled in the Reconquista area of Buenos Aires and non-migrant posaderas (innkeepers) of San Cosme and Damián in Paraguay. Using a multi-sited ethnographic approach and a feminist perspective, the article examines the effects of the extractivist model and the conditions of the precarization of life in both cases. It is argued that both migration and permanence in the territories transformed by the environmental and economic crisis respond to the same logic of expulsion and the overburdening of women's unpaid labor. It concludes that public policies have often failed to reverse these conditions, reinforcing the precarious and vulnerable situations of these populations.