Identity productions and inter cultural relationships at La Plata 's periphery

Abstract

This article, inscribed in a series of works focused on the migration experiences and construction of identities and ethnic-national alterities that we are doing as much in the urban periphery of horticultural production as in the urban area of La Plata city. In those works we study some aspects of local insertion or migrants -in particular with respect to Bolivian case- from different analytic axis as like the ethnic-national ascription, the work, the gender, the institutional participation, the construction of categories of alterity with respect to migrants by the individuals, institutions and local media, the use of media as strategy of identification / affirmation / participation from the migrants themselves. In the specific case of Bolivian migration to Argentina, as much the urban area as the rural periphery -in which acquire special importance-, constitute an structured phenomenon and with its own characteristics, situation reinforced for the unemployment in the areas of peasant economy in Bolivia and the demand of some sectors of Argentinian economy, as actually from de urban construction and from de horticultural urban periphery production. In that sense the topic is a privileged referring to emphasize the dynamic aspects of the city and the region. In this context we will expose some conceptual reflections and results of field work related to the auto and hetero demarcations of ethnic-national belonging as identification space in the dimensions of work and gender