This article is about forest roustabouts/laborers from Northeast Misiones that go to cultivated eucaliptus forests , set in the Provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios, where they are hired by plantations deboted to celuloid and wood industry for harvesting activities. We are particularly interested in becoming aware of those identity elements that are put at stake in the discouse production that consider workers from Misiones as capable of doing productive labor involved in this type of labor migration. Taking into account that every identity process is the result of a relation interaction,we will focus on both the labourers self-image and the way they are represented by therir employers. At the same time, we will try to show the way these identity processes work justifying the labour precoriousness present in this kind of labor. Thus, you will see the relevance of cultural categories in the process of building a segmented labor market in which migrant status means less valued occupy positions in the sector.
Keywords:
Labour Migration, Forest Activity, Labour Precariousness, Social Identities, Argentina
Alberti, A. V. (2013). Male Force and Animal Force: Identity Constructions around Labor Migration of Forestal Workers in Argentina. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (28). Retrieved from https://jurimetria.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/30617
