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ABSTRACT In this study which is part of a research project on Chagas disease (CD) among Bolivian immigrants in Sao Paulo, we describe socioeconomic characteristics, knowledge of CD and implications for acess to health care. We applied a structured questionnaire to a sample of 472 Bolivian adults (> 18 years) living in Sao Paulo and enrolled at the Barra Funda School Health Center. Participants’ median age was 28.5 years, 75.0% were from the Bolivian department of La Paz, and >90% worked in the garment industry. Respondents had lived in Sao Paulo for a median of 5.8 years. Only 169 (35.8%) were familiar with CD, while roughly half (50.4%) had lived in natural materials houses in Bolivia, 225 (47.7%) indicated familiarity with the vector, 23.9% had seen the vector in their homes in Bolivia, and 6.4% reported having been bitten by a triatomine bug. Factors associated with awareness of CD were analyzed by chi square tests, and those with p values

This article aims to highlight the importance of Aymara migration from Bolivia to Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It is not concerned with the variety of methodological and theoretical approaches that have oriented studies about this topic, rather it seeks to shed light upon this new phenomenon. The novelty of Aymara migration to Buenos Aires does not lie in the fact that it began recently, rather in indigenous becoming, in the processes of ethnicization and identity formation among a significant portion of these migrants.