Statistical Production and Intersectionality: Migratory Trajectories of Gender- Diverse Populations in South America

Abstract

This article adopts intersectionality as an analytical perspective to examine how national and international statistical systems incorporate —or fail to incorporate— variables related to gender identity, sexual orientation, and migration status, and the extent to which they allow for the analysis of the specific effects that emerge from the interaction between different axes of inequality. The study conducts a comparative review of eight multilateral databases, the most recent census operations, and current household survey questionnaires from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. To complement the gaps identified in statistical systems, it also reviews recent quantitative studies, as well as qualitative research and case analyses produced since 2019. The main contribution lies in the critical systematization of the statistical sources available in South America, which reveals the scope, limitations, and structural forms of invisibility embedded in current statistical production on gender-diverse migrant populations.