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Carolina Gómez Mena and Laura Poy Solano
La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, August 17, 2025, p. 5
The migration of thousands of women, mainly indigenous, is generating a “reconfiguration of care”, both in countries of origin and destination and transit of the region, warns the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
He adds that the majority of women in mobility do not stop doing this work, because they emigrate to provide these services, “transferring the assistance work through borders”, since 35 percent of their occupation is in paid domestic work, although often done in informality.
In the analysis called the Society of Care, Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a transformation with gender equality, prepared on the occasion of the 16 Regional Conference on Women (CRM), it is highlighted that the exit to industrialized countries or with better economic conditions, of qualified people who seek higher wages and greater opportunities, and who perform assistance tasks has increased.
In the case of Caribbean countries, there have been escape from workers in the health sector. For example, Granada lost 20 percent of its nursing staff due to migration between 2018 and 2022, and Guyana has also expected a similar decline, the study exposes.
Tarcila Rivera Zea, Quechua-Chaanka activist of Peru and coordinator of the continental link of indigenous women of the Americas, said The day That in the first migratory wave in his country during the last decade, “teachers, that is, women who had profession, migrated to Argentina and Chile” to perform domestic work.
“Many of my countrymen, happy, because at least they paid their salary, holidays and social security,” they change very well those tasks. “Their patterns said they cooked very rich, they also cared for their children and had the house clean.”
Paula Narváez Ojeda, permanent representative of Chile before the United Nations, stressed that women in mobility “do not abandon their status as caregivers; they are migrating but they are also taking care of, they are making a huge effort for the sustainability of life, and often they do it at all abandonment and precariousness.”
Rivera Zea, who participated in the CRM, called to expand the vision of care, “and not only see him in how we attend to the other, but also to nature, as well as not only to think about economic compensation.
“Indigenous people give added value to the attention of children in middle or middle class houses where they work; give affection and affection, that parents sometimes do not provide, because they do not have time.”
In addition, he stressed, care “transcends the individual. A democratic state is not part of a care society when lands land to indigenous women or does not protect the communities of the exploiters of nature, drug trafficking or those who traffic and appropriate biodiversity, both medicinal and food.
