Socio environmental strategies to strengthen resilience of women migrant workers in the Reconquista River Basin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

GAVAZZO NATALIA; NEJAMKIS LUCILA

Congreso; IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress "World Solidarities"; 2019

United Nations report states that climate change is not gender neutral as women are more negatively affected by its impacts. Taking this into account,our proposal is based on a participatory action research that explores the local reality faced by thousands of migrant women workers in the lower territories of the Reconquista River Basin, north-west of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This basin is one of the most polluted areas of Argentina, housing both migrants and the largest open-air dump in the country(the CEAMSE) located in the municipal district of General San Martín. This rather lugubrious and unhealthy work of selecting and removing garbage represents a set of socio- environmental strategies developed by women in the area to cope with the social reproduction of their family nuclei. Theres ponsibilities of their livelihoods fall mainly on the women themselves who also take care of the children and families. The aim of the research is to analyze the extent to which climate change determined women?s migration to the Reconquista Area (RA); before examining the impact of intersectionality (class, ethnicity, gender) socio-environmental and climate-based realities on their capacity to fully exercise their rights over resources and decision making.