An approximation to women’s roles in their places of reinsertion during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Autor: Duharte Barreda, Silvana
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/24007
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropia/article/view/24007
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Pandemia; retorno; mujeres; roles; deberes; Pandemic; return; women; chores

The health crisis and the pandemic generated by COVID-19 has had various consequences among peruvians. During the months of April and May 2020, a large number of people decided to return to their places of origin with the objective of finding stability and family support. In the process of reintegration into these spaces, women, specifically, have seen their domestic and work responsibilities transformed. The main objective of this article is to describe and explain the roles and actions that women have adopted in the places to which they returned, since it is necessary to be able to have a first approach to the routines and experiences that the migrant female population is experiencing during the pandemic and during the first months of 2020. The methodology used based on a virtual ethnographic approach and semi-structured interviews were used to be able to fulfill the research objectives. Taking into account the experiences that the informants who participated in the research shared about their return process, it is possible to have an approximation to the changes that women have experienced during the first months of the pandemic. This article presents some first results and encourages continuing the research around the subject in order to understand the reality of women returnees and the transformation of their roles in a more complex way.