As mulheres mukheristas e o comércio transfronteiriço

Abstract

Informal cross-border trade, involving small goods purchased in South Africa and resold in Mozambique, has gained a new dynamic as a source of income to cope with the dearth of life and low wages in the labor market. wage employment among some women, particularly in Maputo City and Province. The objective of the present work was to understand the strategies adopted by women mukheristas in the place of purchase of the products (South Africa), their transport, cross-border traffic and sale in the downtown of the city of Maputo. The procedures methodological aspects for the accomplishment of this work consisted of a detailed case study, articulating the bibliographic research and semi-structured interviews with the mukheristas women. It was found that cross-border trade and socio-economic reproduction strategies implemented by Mukherista women must be seen as a complex process which includes the purchase of products in transnational territories, transport, handling and sale in Mozambique involves power, exploitation, cooperation, trust and coexistence relations between mukheristas and these with product suppliers, transporters, gai-gai (shippers) and buyers. What required knowledge of the experiences of each participant, and experiences of an individual and social character. It was noted that the socio-economic reproduction strategies create an impact that can be summed up in exclusion within groups, collection of moral debts, creation of new identities, which make Mukheristas become the most empowered in the commercial process, emerging from this. thus, conflicts that disrupt social networks between them and other people involved in the same process. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)