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The following work proposes to reflect on the articulation between migration, young people and urban space by contemplating and reconstructing the ways of inhabiting, circulating and producing the city. From an ethnographic approach, based on in-depth interviews, participant observation and commented tours, it analyzes the daily and urban trajectories of young Peruvian migrants living in two peripheral neighborhoods of the city of Córdoba, Argentina. The results show the central place that young Peruvian men and women occupy in family migration projects and, specifically, in the production of three spaces: the house, the neighborhood and the city. At the same time, these spaces condition the ways of being young in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Basado en un trabajo etnográfico realizado en un asentamiento de la ciudad de Córdoba (Argentina) este artículo propone analizar las disputas que mantienen distintos actores interesados en el proceso de definición y clasificación de un territorio. A partir de que el asentamiento en cuestión fue declarado por el Estado como inhabitable, se desata un conflicto que permite problematizar la clasificación de un territorio como contaminado. Partiendo del supuesto de que la definición de un territorio no remite únicamente a dimensiones materiales objetivas, sino que condensa las representaciones que los sujetos se hacen de él, buscamos mostrar cómo la lucha por clasificar el territorio puede ser comprendida como una disputa política. Con este objetivo, indagamos en las posiciones que asumen los sujetos involucrados, mostrando cómo esta disputa conlleva consecuencias significativas para estas personas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the findings of an ethnographic research, this paper proposes to analyze the labor trajectories in “informal” garment workshops of Peruvian migrants who live in territories of urban relegation of Cordoba (Argentina), regarding their strategies to access the city and family reproduction. Moreover, it explores the community practices, as resources of local organization intended for self-management, mobilized in neighborhoods in connection with the development of garment workshops. This study shows how some processes that exceed migration itself –such as presence/absence (selective) of the State in urban spaces, informal labor networks and difficulties to access housing– are related to mobility and labor insertions, making it possible and stimulating the existence and proliferation of informal garment workshops in specific places of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the implications of national origin and migration status in conflicts that reproduce forms of violence in a neighborhood of urban relegation (Wacquant, 2007), located in the Eastern periphery of Córdoba and mainly inhabited by Peruvian migrants. In addition, it looks into the forms and meanings of insecurity representations in these conflicts --in contexts of social exclusion-- through considering the complex and contradictory practices and experiences of the people who live in those spaces. Methodologically, the paper is based on ethnographic research grounded in field observation, which attempts to understand how and why people in particular socio-historical scenarios act, think and feel as they do. It explores a topic scarcely developed yet in migration studies, that is the articulation between interpersonal violence, national origin and urban marginality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes, from a comparative perspective, the distinctive features of the labour trajectories in paid domestic work of Bolivian and Peruvian women in the city of Cordoba, Argentina. A comparative perspective allows thinking about the ways in which national origin, together with gender and social class, becomes a central aspect of the labour trajectories and strategies of migrant women in Argentina. The methodology chosen to carry out this paper is qualitative, based on interviews with Bolivian and Peruvian women living in Cordoba city at the moment of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]