Young migrants in care work: working conditions, health and mobility in Latin America

Care work is performed, especially, by poor, black, indigenous women and young migrants who move internally to other countries in Latin America, or to the Global North. The objective of the article is to analyze and discuss the care work of young migrants from and in the Latin American context, asking whether and how scientific productions dialogue with intersectionality, working conditions and health, and the challenges facing mobilities, social, emotional and sexual interactions. A narrative literature review was carried out with descriptors in the following databases: SciELO, Web of Science, Virtual Health Library, Scopus and Scilit, totaling 19 articles. The results of this review point to the scarce theoretical depth of intersectionality; low pay, long working hours, lack of labor rights that affect the health of these young women; situations of undocumented migration; difficulties in reconciling family care and motherhood, and interruptions in studies. It is essential to discuss the topic from an intersectional perspective to complexify and understand the particularities and diversities of care work for young migrants with a view to producing public care policies for them.