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Always Caregivers: Women's Life and Labour Trajectories in Bogotá

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No. 24 (2025): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2025.82610
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Abstract

This article analyzes the care configurations that unfold across the lives of two women who entered domestic service at an early age. Through their life histories, we trace personal and labour trajectories shaped by bonds of intimacy and domination that continue into old age, when both became recipients of care. These relations are also connected to the State, particularly through mechanisms of labour protection such as pensions. The life and work experiences of Cecilia and Marina highlight how caregiving intersects with inequality and how reciprocity and kinship bonds are built and sustained over time.

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Care work , Caregivers , Life trajectories , Reciprocity , Pensions

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Ángela Catalina Joya Rodríguez, CLACSO

Magíster en Cuidados y Género con perspectiva latinoamericana (CLACSO–UTE) y magíster en Estudios Sociales de la Universidad del Rosario. Antropóloga, investigadora en temas de género, cuidados, desigualdades e infancias

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Joya Rodríguez, Ángela C. (2025). Always Caregivers: Women’s Life and Labour Trajectories in Bogotá. Revista Punto Género, (24), pp. 88–118. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2025.82610
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