Prompt Solution to a Crisis. Nicaraguan Women Assuming the Carework in Costa Rica

Authors

  • Ana Lucía Fernández Fernández Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v11i1.3394

Keywords:

social organization of care, domestic labor and carework, global care chains, feminization of migration, female households

Abstract

This paper exposes part of the data developed in the chapter related to sociodemographic context, in the doctoral "The coloniality of being in the performative practices of migrant women, workers, and heads of household for the support of the lives of their own families. A research in San Jose, Costa Rica. This article shows data from the sociodemographic context chapter of the doctoral thesis entitled,”. The analysis focuses on the conditions of the social organization of care in Costa Rica, and explains the crisis generated by the lack of social co-responsibility on carework in the country. Situation that generates tensions within households, and has a direct effect mainly in women, and particular in migrant Nicaraguan female heads of household.

Author Biography

  • Ana Lucía Fernández Fernández, Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica

    This paper exposes part of the data developed in the chapter related to sociodemographic context, in the doctoral "The coloniality of being in the performative practices of migrant women, workers, and heads of household for the support of the lives of their own families. A research in San Jose, Costa Rica. This article shows data from the sociodemographic context chapter of the doctoral thesis entitled,”. The analysis focuses on the conditions of the social organization of care in Costa Rica, and explains the crisis generated by the lack of social co-responsibility on carework in the country. Situation that generates tensions within households, and has a direct effect mainly in women, and particular in migrant Nicaraguan female heads of household.

Published

2020-12-18

Issue

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

“Prompt Solution to a Crisis. Nicaraguan Women Assuming the Carework in Costa Rica”. 2020. Revista Rupturas 11 (1): 99-134. https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v11i1.3394.

Most read articles by the same author(s)