Abstract

ALBERTI, Alfonsina Verónica. Temporary labor migration and domestic economy in social reproduction strategies: the case of forest workers Bernardo de Irigoyen (Misiones, Argentina). Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2016, n.49, pp.271-292. ISSN 1668-8104.

The objective of this article is to analyze how domestic units participating in temporary labor migration articulate different mechanisms of social reproduction, emphasizing the place of small-scale farming practices. Our empirical reference is a set of domestic units located in the rural area of the municipality of Bernardo de Irigoyen (Misiones, Argentina) that have some members who migrate or have migrated to other provinces to be employed in the forestry sector. The methodology used is qualitative by using interviewees to migrant and non-migrant members of the domestic units analyzed, complemented by observations. This article concludes that in those groups with greater difficulties of insertion in the labor market, the agricultural practices, together with the state monetary transfers, the threads in the social reproduction. On the contrary, in cases where a member of the household maintains an insertion in the stable labor market, property practices are of secondary importance to the subsistence of the group. Also, the diverse forms of configuration of reproduction strategies vary according to the characteristics of the household and relate to different forms of family division of labor, consumption practices and schooling strategies

Keywords : Social reproduction strategies; households; temporary labor migration; domestic economy.