This study investigates the manifestation of Islamophobia in Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires and its effect on the Muslim communities. By looking at the historical context of migration and the...Show moreThis study investigates the manifestation of Islamophobia in Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires and its effect on the Muslim communities. By looking at the historical context of migration and the current visibility of the community, this study demonstrates that Islamophobia is only limited experienced by the Muslim communities in the city due to a generally low level of islamophobia and high degree of efficient integration. Comparatively analysing the case of Buenos Aires to other case studies from predominantly catholic countries with an Islamic minority, this study finds that the current tendency of Islamophobia does not affect the integration of Muslims in the society of Buenos Aires. Furthermore, the Argentinean national identity and the Islamic religious identity co-exist and are currently not threatened by Islamophobia.Show less
The rise of globalization in the Occident after WWII was accompanied by neoliberal policies based on economic expansion. In the case of Argentina, the country was affected by this neoliberal wave...Show moreThe rise of globalization in the Occident after WWII was accompanied by neoliberal policies based on economic expansion. In the case of Argentina, the country was affected by this neoliberal wave from the seventies on. Globalization provoked a global increase of competition between workers and workplaces. The market knew less and less frontiers which made that intense labour tasks, those which require handwork for example, are shifted to countries or places with lower salaries and poor labour protection. Industrial production suffers from the increasing importance of economic expansion. The existence of sweatshops is directly related to these neoliberal open market policies since this change in the economic scene has a big influence on the clothing industry. Countries start to import cheap prêt-à-porter clothes from Asian countries and force their own domestic clothing industry to lower their prices in order to survive. Some clothing businesses start to outsource the production process by moving it to the informal economy in order to avoid costs. The outsourcing of the production process favours big companies while the working conditions get worse for producers. These changes and economic factors lead to the existence of sweatshops. This research aims at analysing how brands benefit from the informal economy and the use of sweatshops for the production of their clothes and describe the profile of sweatshops in Buenos Aires and their employees. Around 20.000 sweatshops are based in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. In these sweatshops, cheap clothes for informal markets as well as expensive clothes for prestigious brands are made, sometimes alongside each other in the same sweatshop. The particular sweatshops based in Buenos Aires are located in small buildings, as houses, where they are invisible for passing citizens. Worldwide there is a trend that most sweatshop workers are migrants, in Argentina most sweatshops workers and heads of the sweatshops are of Bolivian origin. Work conditions in sweatshops are very bad. People often get the feeling of being locked up in the sense that they have no better option or see no way out of the situation, sometimes people are also physically locked up in the workplaces. The fashion industry is always moving, brands require extreme flexibility from their producers. These demands are impossible to achieve by working according to existing labour rights. Brands take advantage of the subcontracting of producers inside the informal economy to meet with the shifting demands of their clients. Sweatshops pay the price of this fast fashion trend throughout the world.Show less
Este estudio presenta cómo la creación de identidades por parte de hinchas de fútbol genera inclusión, exclusión y, enseguida, una forma de violencia organizada en la ciudad de Buenos Aires,...Show moreEste estudio presenta cómo la creación de identidades por parte de hinchas de fútbol genera inclusión, exclusión y, enseguida, una forma de violencia organizada en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. El gol es llegar a una conclusión mediante el análisis de entrevistas con hinchas de fútbol, observación participante de los fenómenos dentro de los estadios y lo que se encuentra afuera, como el comportamiento de la policía.Show less
