Delito y sobrevivencia: las mujeres que ingresan a la cárcel El Buen Pastor en Costa Rica por tráfico de drogas.
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Palma Campos, Claudia
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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En este trabajo se muestra que el delito de tráfico de drogas al que están vinculadas no menos del 64% de las mujeres privadas de libertad del país es una decisión que se toma en condiciones de escaza posibilidad de resolver las necesidades básicas de la vida cotidiana. La propuesta es leer y analizar el tráfico de drogas como una estrategia de sobrevivencia, como una actividad económica informal a la que se dedica un grupo de mujeres con un limitado acceso al trabajo ?legal?, a las oportunidades sociales, económicas y culturales para satisfacer sus necesidades y las de sus familias. Junto a ello, la comisión del delito, al ser una construcción social y cultural, acarrea una serie de significados y vivencias que implican analizarlo en el contexto en el que ocurre; en el caso de estas mujeres, los significados que se vinculan a su acto, leído como una transgresión legal y moral, implica una ruptura y una reelaboración de las tradicionales feminidades tradicionales o normativas.
In this paper, I explain how drug trafficking, which accounts for more than 64% of imprisoned women in Costa Rica, is a decision that is made in a limited choice frame for making one’s living. I suggest reading and analysing drug trafficking as a surviving strategy, as an informal and underground economic activity carried out by women with limited access to the legal labour market and to other socio-economic and cultural opportunities to meet their needs and those of their families. Moreover, committing a crime or a felony, as it is a social construction, brings along a series of meanings and lived experiences that need to be addressed. In the case of these women, the meaning attached to their acts, read as a legal and moral transgression, means a fracture and re-elaboration of their traditional, hegemonic feminity
In this paper, I explain how drug trafficking, which accounts for more than 64% of imprisoned women in Costa Rica, is a decision that is made in a limited choice frame for making one’s living. I suggest reading and analysing drug trafficking as a surviving strategy, as an informal and underground economic activity carried out by women with limited access to the legal labour market and to other socio-economic and cultural opportunities to meet their needs and those of their families. Moreover, committing a crime or a felony, as it is a social construction, brings along a series of meanings and lived experiences that need to be addressed. In the case of these women, the meaning attached to their acts, read as a legal and moral transgression, means a fracture and re-elaboration of their traditional, hegemonic feminity