Migración y política: modulaciones identitarias en un comedor comunitario de la ciudad de La Plata, Argentina

Abstract

Through ethnographic fieldwork performed in a “comedor comunitario” located on the periphery of the city of La Plata, Argentina, we noted the appropriations of national and class identifications made by a group of Bolivian women who participate in it. In this way, we see that their national and class are positionings interlaced, moving logics of different interlocution fields.Although we find a configuration of public space that relegates the possibility of processing demands related to social rights from particularistic positions, our work also show the existence of areas of socialization in which these affiliations are fundamental. Thereby, we observe that the identifications are constituted in a complex tension developed in circulation among the public political space and everyday social spaces marked by the Bolivian identity.