Migrant Women and Politicized Experience: The Place of Gender in Three Social Organizations in Buenos Aires and La Plata (Argentina)

Abstract

This article explores the incorporation of gender issues by associations of migrant women in Argentina, in the first years of the XXI century. The main question is how the experiences of migrant women are politically articulated. The process shows the existence of different levels of political formalization of experience. The politicization of experience takes different forms, which may be complementary or discrepant, at home, in a political organization, in the streets, in a state or supra-state institution. Concepts, points of view and knowledge circulate among actors with specific capitals and asymmetric negotiation capacities. The politicization of experience at different levels helps to understand how social positions coexist, are assembled and hierarchized, and is, therefore, an analytical gateway for the study of intersectionality.