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In Buenos Aires' garment industry, workers reshape precarious working conditions through collective organization and throughout their trajectories of migration and garment work. Moving beyond victimizing or criminalizing narratives, Karlotta Bahnsen offers an ethnographic view of migrant workers' negotiations of intersecting inequalities, with insights into transnational networks, the intersections of migration, gender, and labor, and the hidden structures sustaining Buenos Aires' urban fashion industry. This unique perspective addresses scholars of Latin America, informal labor in global industries, migration and gender, while offering a vivid account of agency resonating beyond academia.
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Karlotta Jule Bahnsen is a cultural anthropologist who earned her doctorate at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she also worked as a research associate, taught in the interdisciplinary M.A. program, and coordinated the institute's international alumni program. She is a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA), and the Applied Anthropology Network. Her research focuses on migration, the global garment industry, informality, and gender relations.
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In Buenos Aires’ garment industry, workers reshape precarious working conditions through collective organization and throughout their trajectories of migration and garment work. Moving beyond victimizing or criminalizing narratives, Karlotta Bahnsen offers an ethnographic view of migrant workers’ negotiations of intersecting inequalities, with insights into transnational networks, the intersections of migration, gender, and labor, and the hidden structures sustaining Buenos Aires’ urban fashion industry. This unique perspective addresses scholars of Latin America, informal labor in global industries, migration and gender, while offering a vivid account of agency resonating beyond academia.
