Post-pandemic Poverty: Debt and the Feminisation of Finance in Marginal Sites

In Latin America, a recent driver of inequality and economic deprivation is growing
credit card debt among low-income families who were previously excluded from
formal sector consumer credit. This financialisation and targeting of women in
particular for unsecure sub-prime lending is investigated through ethnographic
research on women’s struggles over credit access and debt payments, as well as the
corporate retailers that offer credit cards upon credit assessment based on
algorithmic technologies