Growing away from home. Mothers and children facing poverty in the Buenos Aires countryside Crecer fuera de casa. Madres y ninos ante la pobreza en la Campana Bonaerense

TRUEBA, YOLANDA DE PAZ

Boletin Americanista

Universitat de Barcelona

Lugar: Barcelona; Año: 2018 p. 199 - 214

0520-4100

From a regional and gender perspective, this article seeks to address the complaints filed with the Children´s ombudsman of several localities in the central and southeast areas of the province of Buenos Aires by poor women, mostly mothers of several children. The objective is to explore the way in which these mothers turned to the state authorities for child services, represented by the local Ombudsman in each area, and even to the Public Defender General of the province, as well as the tactics in play at the time of doing so.