Graduation Year
2012
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Latin American Studies
Reader 1
Marina Pérez de Mendiola
Reader 2
Miguel Tinker Salas
Reader 3
April Mayes
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Abstract
This thesis focuses on the effects of neoliberal economic and social policies in Bolivia and their role in the feminization of poor indigenous migration. The thesis argues that these neoliberal policies most deeply affect poor indigenous women in Bolivia forcing them to migrate in order to provide for their families. Through migration, women become transnational mothers ( mothers across national borders). Based on interviews conducted in both Bolivian and Argentina with migrant women, the thesis uses the experiences of these women in order to examine both the short and long-term effects of this on "culture" and mother-child relationships as well as southern cone relationships and inequalities.
Recommended Citation
Beitcher, Adrienne, "Ni La Tierra, Ni Las Mujeres Somos Territorio de La Conquista" (2012). Scripps Senior Theses. 79.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/79
