¿La informalidad como horizonte? Migrantes peruanos en el comercio de Sao Paulo
(2021) Rostros Del Trabajo: Desigualdad, Poder e Identidad En El Perú Contemporáneo — p. 39-62, published
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- This chapter analyzes the trajectories of a group of Peruvian street vendors in Sao Paulo through the prism of the informality-entrepreneurship nexus. It engages with the Peruvian academic literature of the past 20 years to shed light on the continuities between previous analyses of “informality” and current views on “entrepreneurship.” My research shows that an “employee culture” seems to be less and less present among young Peruvians engaged in migration. Salaried employment does remain a goal for some young professionals and for those with post-secondary education, migrants for whom street vending represents a symbolic social—if not necessarily economic—downgrading. However, many others aspire to obtain a non-manual, “white-collar” job (e.g., as emprendedores) rather than salaried employment. For most research participants, salaried work is no longer a desirable goal in Brazil or Peru, despite the precarity and risks of self-employment in general, and street vending in particular. Finally, migrant ideas of progress are linked to capital accumulation, to “having your own things,” and to cosmopolitan experiences rather than salaried work.
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Izaguirre, L. (2021). ¿La informalidad como horizonte? Migrantes peruanos en el comercio de Sao Paulo. In Omar Manky (ed.) (ed.), Rostros Del Trabajo: Desigualdad, Poder e Identidad En El Perú Contemporáneo (p. p. 39-62). Universidad del Pacífico. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/223533