Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency

This article explores how state cash transfer programs are negotiated and reconfigured in the everyday lives of women from low-income sectors within their territories. To do so, it examines a specific case: Villa 21-24, the largest informal settlement in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, during t...

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Autor principal: Kaplan, Yanina
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Publicado: Centro de Estudio Sociales. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste 2025
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social policies
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women
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mujeres
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spelling I48-R154-article-89762025-12-17T10:42:16Z Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency Programas de transferencia monetaria “en territorio”: mujeres, arreglos colectivos y agencia Kaplan, Yanina social policies territory women políticas sociales territorio mujeres This article explores how state cash transfer programs are negotiated and reconfigured in the everyday lives of women from low-income sectors within their territories. To do so, it examines a specific case: Villa 21-24, the largest informal settlement in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, during the period 2015–2024. The study is framed within a theoretical perspective that combines contributions from gender studies, social policy, and anthropology. Using an ethnographic approach, the article analyzes family and community arrangements, connections with grassroots organizations, and the practices that emerge around the demand, access, and sustainability of these policies. The research is based on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and the use of secondary sources, including materials produced by social organizations and official data on social programs. The findings show that although cash transfer programs tend to burden women with unpaid labor, they are not passive recipients. On the contrary, through everyday practices and collective arrangements, women transform, reinterpret, and challenge these policies, improving life in contexts marked by structural inequality. In doing so, they develop both technical and situated knowledge that questions the boundaries of state policy design and generates alternative forms of organization and care. Este artículo indaga cómo los programas estatales de transferencia monetaria (PTM) se negocian y reconfiguran en la vida cotidiana de mujeres de sectores populares en territorio. Para ello, se analiza un caso específico: la Villa 21-24, el asentamiento más grande de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, durante el período 2015-2024. El trabajo se inscribe en una perspectiva teórica que combina aportes de los estudios de género, las políticas sociales y la antropología. Desde un enfoque etnográfico, se exploran los arreglos familiares y comunitarios, los vínculos con organizaciones sociales y las prácticas que surgen en torno a la demanda, el acceso y el sostenimiento de estas políticas. La investigación se basa en entrevistas en profundidad, observación participante y el uso de fuentes secundarias, como materiales producidos por organizaciones sociales y datos oficiales sobre programas sociales.Los resultados muestran que, aunque las PTM tienden a sobrecargar a las mujeres con trabajo no remunerado, ellas no son receptoras pasivas. Por el contrario, a través de prácticas cotidianas y arreglos colectivos, transforman, resignifican y disputan estas políticas, mejorando la vida en contextos de desigualdad estructural y, en ese proceso, desarrollan conocimientos técnicos y situados que tensionan los límites del diseño estatal y generan formas alternativas de organización y cuidado. Centro de Estudio Sociales. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste 2025-12-17 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/dpd/article/view/8976 10.30972/dpd.14248976 De Prácticas y Discursos; Vol. 14 Núm. 24 (2025): De Prácticas y Discursos. Cuadernos de Ciencias Sociales 2250-6942 spa https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/dpd/article/view/8976/8592 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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women
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mujeres
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women
políticas sociales
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Kaplan, Yanina
Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency
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women
políticas sociales
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mujeres
author Kaplan, Yanina
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title Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency
title_short Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency
title_full Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency
title_fullStr Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency
title_full_unstemmed Cash Transfer Programs “on the ground”: Women, collective strategies, and agency
title_sort cash transfer programs “on the ground”: women, collective strategies, and agency
description This article explores how state cash transfer programs are negotiated and reconfigured in the everyday lives of women from low-income sectors within their territories. To do so, it examines a specific case: Villa 21-24, the largest informal settlement in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, during the period 2015–2024. The study is framed within a theoretical perspective that combines contributions from gender studies, social policy, and anthropology. Using an ethnographic approach, the article analyzes family and community arrangements, connections with grassroots organizations, and the practices that emerge around the demand, access, and sustainability of these policies. The research is based on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and the use of secondary sources, including materials produced by social organizations and official data on social programs. The findings show that although cash transfer programs tend to burden women with unpaid labor, they are not passive recipients. On the contrary, through everyday practices and collective arrangements, women transform, reinterpret, and challenge these policies, improving life in contexts marked by structural inequality. In doing so, they develop both technical and situated knowledge that questions the boundaries of state policy design and generates alternative forms of organization and care.
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