Abstract

SILVEIRA, Cássio; MARTIN, Denise  and  GOLDBERG, Alejandro. Life sewn between shreds of cloth: work, housing and health in Bolivian immigrants of the city of Sao Paulo. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, n.32, pp.431-449. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article examines the phenomenon of young Bolivian workers of both sexes who migrate to the city of Sao Paulo to improve their living conditions, mainly due to the possibility of finding better work and higher pay than found in their country of origin. Most immigrants are uninformed about the work conditions that they will find at their destination, and sewing is often a viable option for work, since it guarantees housing, food and a salary. Immigrants, and in some cases their children, have several health problems caused by unsanitary and dangerous work conditions present in sewing workshops. A large proportion of immigrants do not access health centres to treat their problems due to a lack of knowledge about services, fear, language barriers and mainly because they cannot interrupt their work day due to the risk of diminishing their income determined by the quantity of garments that they produce.

Keywords : immigrants; Sao Paulo; Textile workshops; Health-illness-care dimensions.

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