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0135/2025 - Young migrants in care work: working conditions, health and mobility in Latin America
Jovens migrantes no trabalho de cuidado: condições de trabalho, saúde e mobilidades na América Latina

Author:

• Cristiane Batista Andrade - Andrade, CB - <cristiane.andrade@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-9171

Co-author(s):

• Edith França de Carvalho. - Carvalho, EF - <edith.fcarvalho@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-7029-8840.
• Thuane Rosa do Carmo - do Carmo, TR - <psithuanerosa@gmail.com.>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0009-0005-2680-7640
• Júlia de Almeida Roffé Borges - Borges, JAR - <julia.roffe@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3630-4382
• Emília Miranda Senapeschi - Senapeschi, EM - <senapeschiemilia@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2343-0647


Abstract:

Care work is performed, especially, by poor, black, indigenous women and young migrants who move internally to other countries in Latin America, or to the Global North. The objective of the article is to analyze and discuss the care work of young migrantsand in the Latin American context, asking whether and how scientific productions dialogue with intersectionality, working conditions and health, and the challenges facing mobilities, social, emotional and sexual interactions. A narrative literature review was carried out with descriptors in the following databases: Scielo, Web of Science, Virtual Health Library, Scopus and Scilit, totaling 19 articles. The results of this review point to the scarce theoretical depth of intersectionality; low pay, long working hours, lack of labor rights that affect the health of these young women; situations of undocumented migration; difficulties in reconciling family care and motherhood, and interruptions in studies. It is essential to discuss the topican intersectional perspective to complexify and understand the particularities and diversities of care work for young migrants with a view to producing public care policies for them.

Keywords:

Internal migration; Intersectional Framework; Women Working; Working Conditions; Migrant Health.

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Andrade, CB, Carvalho, EF, do Carmo, TR, Borges, JAR, Senapeschi, EM. Young migrants in care work: working conditions, health and mobility in Latin America. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/May). [Citado em 17/09/2026]. Está disponível em: http://www.cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/young-migrants-in-care-work-working-conditions-health-and-mobility-in-latin-america/19611?id=19611



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