Nouvelles mobilités « maraîchères » à Buenos Aires

Abstract

In thirty years, the Bolivian migrants and their kin have become key players in the supply of vegetables in Buenos Aires and hold control on all gardening spaces for farming, marketing, wholesaling and retailing. Bolivians benefited from various trends specific to the Argentinean context in the 1990s that allowed them to move around and integrate the metropolitan area. Thanks to their own efficient way of mobilizing the physical and virtual networks, they induce original mobility patterns in the gardening system of the years 2000. Looking at the mobility patterns of the Bolivians involved in the gardening activity shows how much the migratory couple formed by Bolivia and Argentina lately evolved and reveals the deep changing process happening in Buenos Aires since the end of the 1980s.

Keywords

• bolivian
• Buenos Aires
• network
• gardening system
• periurban agriculture