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This paper is the result of different ethnographic research conducted from 2007 onwards. It addresses a specific case study within Argentinian contemporary regional migration processes, from a relational, cultural and socio-political defini-tion of the concept of violence. The above case is that of the Bolivian immigrant workers of both sexes, who are victims of transnational human trafficking networks, who were recruited in origin and reduced to servitude under conditions close to slavery, in clandestine textile workshops of the city of Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area. In this context of social vulnerability, the risk situations for the health of these people are increased, including their suffering from serious illnesses and accidents, and even death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to emphasize the relevance of analyzing the exchanges between local and foreign counterparts. Latin American cultural history, cultural studies as well as architecture and urbanism histories contribute to discuss dependentists analyses on center--periphery relations. Those research lines enable a more productive approach on international circulation of ideas, technicians and urban models as well as international exchanges. The theoretical approach is articulated with a previous research that analyzes the struggle to define diagnoses of Buenos Aires city problems between 1983 and 1992. Those diagnosis are developed by various networks of local professional and technician, related in multiple ways with Spanish peers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]