La práctica del fútbol entre mujeres bolivianas en Sevilla. Redes sociales, trayectorias migratorias y relaciones de género

Abstract

Immigrants in Spain, especially those from Andean countries, have constituted an emerging associative movement that has taken the form of soccer and futsal leagues created by the immigrants themselves. Women's participation in these leagues is significant. How should women's involvement in sports be understood? This article centers on the study of migratory, social and labor networks to understand the practice of soccer and its influence on gender relations. Its objective is to analyze the strategies of migrants and explain how migratory and social networks on arrival have affected the formation and potentiality of this space, as well as the development of teams, as demonstrated, in this case, by the Bolivia team of Seville in which I participated as an ethnographer-player. To that end, I have used an empirical, social and process-based focus that has allowed me to analyze change in the sport as a process parallel to the unfolding of migratory trajectories and couple relationships. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]