Labor Incorporation of South-South Paraguayan Migrants and Their Children in Argentina: Intersectionality of Gender, Generations and Work.

The study of the “second generation” of migrants in receiving societies is an issue with a long tradition in the social sciences, public discourse and politics in different parts of the world. The predominant theoretical frameworks are those that focus on migration from the global south to the global north.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the general patterns of labor incorporation of South-South Paraguayan migrants and their children in Argentina. First, we detail the characteristics of the labor incorporation of migrants and their children in comparison with the native population and their children. Second, we analyze the forms of incorporation into the different labor segments of Argentine society. In Argentina, due to socio-historical reasons, there are no statistics on the so-called “second generation” immigrants. We reconstruct the location of the children of migrants in the occupational structure through the national statistical system, we intend to study comparatively the labor specifications at a household level. We consider the following vectors for comparison with the native population:

1) Generation vector: the occupational incorporation of the adults in the household compared to that of the children living in the household. Specifically, we refer to the intra-household generation.

2) Gender vector: the occupational distributions of men and women within each generational group.

Five household situations were considered:

1. household where the head and spouse are Argentinian
2. Household where the head and spouse are south-south migrants.
3. South-South migrant single-parent households.
4. Argentine single-parent households
5. Households where the head or spouse is a south-south migrant nationality.

We use census data from the last two censuses in Argentina in order to observe the changes and continuities of these processes.