Tuberculosis and migration to Cordoba in the first decades of the twentieth century: discourses and conceptions of the figure internal migrants
Author(s) -
María Laura Rodríguez,
Lila Aizenberg,
Adrián Carbonetti
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
quinto sol
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.143
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1851-2879
pISSN - 0329-2665
DOI - 10.19137/qs1167
Subject(s) - humanities , political science , history , art
espanolEl trabajo amplio el conocimiento que posee la historiografia especializada sobre las problematicas de la migracion y la tuberculosis en las primeras decadas del siglo XX, en el contexto de la migracion interna que llegaba a la provincia y a la ciudad de Cordoba. Articulamos bibliografia especializada y testimonios de la epoca dividiendo la indagacion en dos partes. Por un lado, analizamos el tipo de migracion que llegaba a la ciudad en el marco de un sistema antituberculoso en construccion. Por el otro, estudiamos los discursos y concepciones que surgieron desde los actores de poder locales ante un escenario caracterizado por un tipo de migracion de escasos recursos. El trabajo identifico la existencia de posturas que tendieron a convertir al inmigrante tuberculoso en el responsable tanto del contagio a los residentes “sanos”, la “invasion” de enfermos a la provincia y a la ciudad de Cordoba, asi como de llevar al sistema antituberculoso al limite de sus posibilidades de respuesta EnglishThis paper aims at increasing the knowledge related with specialized historiography on the field of migration and tuberculosis in the early decades of the twentieth century, within the context of the internal migration that arrived to the province and the city of Cordoba. Technical literature and testimonies of the time are used as sources. The article is organized in two main sections. On the one hand, it analyses the type of migration that arrived to the city in the context of a healthcare system regarding tuberculosis’ treatment under construction. On the other, it analyses the discourses and concepts that emerged from local power sectors in a scenario characterized by low-income immigrants and a weak healthcare system regarding tuberculosis’ treatment. The paper identifies the existence of concepts and discourses that tended to make the immigrant responsible for spreading the diseases to “healthy” residents and “invading” the city of Cordoba with sick people as well as to bring the collapse of the healthcare system
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