1 Practices of Resistance AmongYoung Bolivian Immigrants Working in a Brick Factory in Córdoba City Mariana Ferreiro, Cynthia Alejandra Pizarro, and María Lourdes Basualdo Introduction In this chapter we examine the practices of resistance of young Bolivian immigrants working in a brickworks located in a rural area close to Córdoba City. We analyze immigrants’ family ties and transnational networks as well asnarrativesregarding their expectations, memoirs, and mementos that help them to endure extremely precarious living and working conditions. We focus on some practicesof resistance as inscribed in their memoirs which are then re-signified in their narratives. Those narratives reveal the ways in which these immigrants have faced — or currently face— painful experiences and situations of sustained stress, fear, loss, and uncertainty. Most brickworks in Córdoba incorporate workers who migrate from Bolivia.The labor hiring of these immigrantsis possible due to the construction of ethnicizing stereotypes that marked them as the most suitable to perform tasks which are generally underpaid, involving extremely precariousconditions of both life and work. The process of brickmaking in the brickworks is long and strenuous, characterizedby its endless, repetitive,andmonotonous workdays. The labor is done manually, sparsely machinized, and often overly exposed to inclement weather conditions. The workers consider this line of work as“wearying,” involving intense physical exertion, and excessively“taxing”for them. In the brickworksunder study, workers are mainly young males whose ages rangefromfifteentothirty-five years old, and most of them reside in the premises of the factory. This is a characteristic of most of the brickworks located in the ruralareas of Córdoba City. While some workers live alone, others share their accommodations with either their co-