Kobiety w migracjach przesiedleńczych w Peru (1980-2000)
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2006
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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Women in the displacement migrations in Peru (1980-2000)
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The shock of the lengthy military conflict in Peru changed the demographic, social
and cultural outlook of that country. One of the basic elements of this process was uncontrolled
mass migration from rural areas to towns, brought about by political violence.
Displacement migrations were strongly feminized. Institutional structures that
emerged in towns, via women’s self-assistance societies facilitated the migrants’ acclimatization
in towns. However, they had to pay a price and to reject their memories of
violence by denying the Indian identity of the state and their own. Therefore, these organizations
were initially, a significant element of cultural mestization of female migrants.
Now it transpires that the same organizations were used by the women and then
the assimilated migrants, to exert pressure demanding that the position of women in
Peru be changed. Former female migrants, who acquired experience and who, for
many years negotiated that their status be acknowledged, had a significantly higher degree
of social independence because of their struggle to survive in urban conditions.
They were also financially independent and began to successfully demand that their
macho environment treat them in a different manner.
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2006, nr 1, s. 47-62.