Appearance of Old Topics in a Modernized Context: Theoretical and Methodological Framework in the Study of Seasonal Migrants in Southern Argentina

Abstract

This article deals with carrying out the theoretical and procedural developments in the social construction of data and analytical thinking. From the back room of research, it is shown the progress of a traditional topic in a modernized context. This time, empirical research is situated in a region of intensive production under the influence of Southern Argentina, word market oriented, with high requirements of seasonal migrants and opacity in the records and social images. From a critical social science by breaking the obvious, we proceed to build data and findings in order to denaturalize representations and to dissect situations through the combination of methodological procedures. The purpose of this paper is therefore to show the theoretical and methodological decisions underlying in the research and to respond with substantive content and empirical inquiry to the central questions about seasonal migration in a fruit production chain.