Abstract

RIBOTTA, Bruno S.; SANTILLAN PIZARRO, María Marta  and  GONZALEZ, Leandro M.. Through the fog… populations in social vulnerability situations in Argentina's socio-demográphic data sources (1994-2015). SaberEs [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.1, pp.45-71. ISSN 1852-4418.

Women, girls and boys, migrants, refugees, indigenous peoples and afrodescent are some of the most socially vulnerable populations living in Argentina. Their human rights may be limited, even though those rights are inherent attributes to human dignity and they have universal legal protection. Different United Nations agencies recognize, as a meaningful tool, the production of reliable, systematic and disaggregated statistical information that show up such situations of social vulnerability. In this context, the aim of the article is to diagnose the Argentinian situation in relation to the availability of socio-demographic information sources, officially prepared from 1994 to 2015, for the visibility of populations in social vulnerability situations. Among the main conclusions, we highlight that these populations cannot be identified in all cases (particularly African descent, indigenous peoples and refugees). Thus, it is important to invest in the redesign of data sources (which implies the inclusion of new variables or the reformulation of their questions) and/or development of new more specific sources of data.

Keywords : Sociodemographic Data Sources; Social Vulnerability; Human Rights.

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