Keren Marín

Bio: Keren Marín is an academic researcher from University of Los Andes. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban sociology. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 8 citations.

Atravesando la ciudad. La movilidad y experiencia subjetiva del espacio por las empleadas domésticas en Bogotá

Abstract: Domestic workers are a vital element of Latin American urban society. Focusing on the lives and experiences of household employees in Bogota, Colombia, this article examines the interrelation between space and socioeconomic differences in the urban context. More specifically, we explore female domestic workers’ “production of space” (Lefebvre, 1991), specifically analyzing how they use, experience, and intervene in the urban space. By following household employees in their trajectories, the project illuminates how space is stratified, how the women experience the space, and how spatial, social, and economic dimensions interact with each other to impact their lives and mobility possibilities. The research shows how spatial and socioeconomic mobility is put into practice and negotiated daily, not only in the city itself but also through extensions of time and space beyond the urban sphere.

Domestic workers’ commutes in Bogotá: Transportation, gender and social exclusion

Abstract: Transportation, gender and social exclusion have increasingly come together in scholarly pursuits and policy agendas in Latin America and the Caribbean. The recognition of the gender dimension of sustainable mobility has opened a space to consider the role of women, especially of those facing poverty and exclusion, in this global agenda. However, research on the link between precarious occupations, social exclusion, and gender, and the role that mobility plays both in enhancing and limiting development opportunities for highly vulnerable workers in the Global South is still limited. Based on Bogota’s 2015 Mobility Survey, data from an application that matches domestic workers with employers (HogarU) and interviews conducted with domestic workers, this paper investigates the case of Bogota, Colombia, to describe domestic workers’ daily commutes. More specifically, it focuses on the long duration of their trips, their patterns, their inevitable connection to public transportation, and the financial implications for their restricted family budget. Considering a legal provision that establishes a time-window for switching between public transportation vehicles, the paper also examines its effects on domestic workers’ commutes. By doing so, the paper aims to address the situation not only of the massive group of female domestic workers traversing the city every day, but also of other similarly situated social groups that could find in transportation a path towards greater social inclusion.

Trabajo a cambio de pertenencia, empleadas domésticas en Bogotá, Resumen: 1950-1980

Abstract: Resumen: El articulo muestra aspectos claves para entender por que hubo tantas mujeres empleadas del servicio domestico, el modo como lo llevaban a cabo y el valor de ese trabajo en Bogota entre 1950 y 1980. Se destacan el proceso de migracion campo-ciudad, el dominio del tiempo de la naturaleza producto de su origen campesino, el alto nivel de trabajo y sobre-trabajo que desarrollaron las sociedades campesinas en el pais, la capacidad para habitar un territorio cultural de frontera de clase y el traspaso de la autoridad de los padres a los patrones. Aspectos que seran examinados a continuacion. Palabras clave: empleadas de servicio domestico, migracion campo-ciudad, relaciones familiares. Resumo: Este artigo desenvolve aspectos chaves para compreender porque houve tantas mulheres trabalhando como empregadas domesticas tanto como o modo como elas faziam esse oficio e o valor desse trabalho em Bogota dos anos de 1950 a 1980. Destacam-se como fenomenos cruciais o processo de migracao rural-urbano, a importância do tempo da natureza como modo de temporalidade originado na infância camponesa de estas mulheres, enorme capacidade de trabalho e sobre-trabalho caracteristico de sociedades rurais, a capacidade para habitar um territorio cultural de fronteira de classe e o traspasso da autoridade dos pais aos patroes. Aspectos que serao aprofundados a continuacao. Palavras chaves: empregadas domesticas, migracao rural-urbana, relacionamento familiar. Abstract: This article briefly shows key aspects as to understand why were there so many maids and the worth this work had in the 1950’s to 1980’s Bogota. There are some distinguished aspects which are about to be examined. Urbanization process, nature time hegemony due to rural childhood, over-working high level of peasant societies, the capacity to inhabit a frontier class place and the parent’s authority transferred to the house keeper and his husband, are some of the aspects considered. Key words : Maids, urbanization, familiar relationships.

Repensar las prácticas espaciales. Rupturas y continuidades en la experiencia cotidiana de mujeres urbanas de la Ciudad de México DOI: 10.5212/Rlagg.v.4.i2.002012

Abstract: 0 0 1 105 578 Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa 9 1 682 140 96 800x600 Normal 0 21 false false false ES-TRAD JA X-NONE El objetivo de esta ponencia es repensar las practicas espaciales metropolitanas no solo como formas de reproduccion, sino como formas de innovacion social de genero El analisis de la espacialidad se realizara a partir de las practicas cotidianas de movilidad en la experiencia espacial cotidiana de mujeres de una colonia popular del centro de la ciudad de Mexico Practicas que expresan rupturas y continuidades, y que son significativas no necesariamente por su persistencia, sino por la importancia que tienen en la configuracion de lo cotidiano y en la construccion de un imaginario colectivo urbano que muestra por momentos, crecientes busquedas por romper las continuidades