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Back and Forth: An Analysis of the Processes of Transnationalization of Women’s Work and the Internationalization of Early Childhood Policies in Uruguay

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South American Childhoods

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This paper aims to address the interaction between two processes: in the first place, the formation and integration of regional circuits of human mobility that have increased in recent decades, integrating the feminization of migration into global chains of precarious work. In second place, the creation of childhood policies in Uruguay with relation to the concept of migrant children. We seek to understand how human mobility and policies for the protection of children and adolescents interact in a specific context, focusing on the experience of transnational families built between Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. To this end, I reread studies conducted in Montevideo among migrant women and their families to understand how neo-liberalization and transnationalization processes in Latin America have affected the experience of children, adolescents, and their families, in situations of international mobility.

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Uriarte Bálsamo, P. (2021). Back and Forth: An Analysis of the Processes of Transnationalization of Women’s Work and the Internationalization of Early Childhood Policies in Uruguay. In: Vergara del Solar, A., Llobet, V., Nascimento, M.L. (eds) South American Childhoods. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78949-7_10

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