?Re/Defining ?Essential Work?: COVID-19 Pandemic and High-Skilled Venezuelan Migrants in Argentina's Gig Economy?.

IVANCHEVA, MARIYA; PLA, JESICA LORENA

Otro; Webinar Re/defining Essential Work through Migration during the COVID-19 Pandemic; 2021

Social Sciences Research Council and Liverpool University

Key questionshow do university-educated ?high-skilled? Venezuelans in ?low-skilled? positions experience (in)visibility & ambivalent status of essential work (gig/platform econ)?does being on the ?frontline? change or reinforce perception of ?skill?/ ?value? / ?freedom? and of social class in relation to work and political participation?(how) do they negotiate / make sense of/ reconcile work precarity / (in)flexibility with the (downward) social mobility they experienced upon migration?Methods20 qualitative interviews with Venezuelan migrants in Buenos Airessurvey (ongoing) with Vzlan migrants, working during the pandemic in BsAsChallenges?