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Even though we are at the beginning of the 21st century there is still a blindness to gender, as it is evident in the paper that I comment: El género en el análisis de la violencia contra las mujeres en la pareja [Gender in the analysis of intimate partner violence against women]. The problem is: how are we going to be able to end with that blindness? The proposal presented here is very clear: institutionalizing generelogy, which represents a considerable advance with respect to gender studies, which would thus be coherently integrated. From this perspective, the gender goes from being a mere category of analysis (important as it has been until now) to a nationally and internationally recognized area of study, under conditions similar to those of other scientific disciplines already fully recognized, such as psychology, medicine, or sociology, among others. Some of the study nuclei of this new discipline are already being widely investigated, such as gender identities, masculinities and femininities, roles, stereotypes, status, or gender asymmetries, along with services, laws, and intervention programs whose ultimate goal is gender equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we outline some of the research results of a larger work which studies the Bolivian migration from a gender perspective, as well as the impact of the institutional practices that determine the transnational experience. In a global scene of restrictive rules concerning the human mobility, we notice how control and dominance strategies are present in ideologies and symbolic mechanisms. Women options in the migration process are trapped through them. We propose to recognize the symbolic and institutional violence that pressures migrants during their migration journey, focusing on understanding the ideological content - sexism and marianism - in which they are based on. We present an analysis of the instrumented ways of applying violence against Bolivian migrant women and its families from the social action practices implemented at origin and destination (transnational perspective). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]