Diversity Resources

While Argentina's constant economic turns change the prices of travel and accommodations, transportation and local cuisine are always inexpensive and affordable for students. You can expect to spend around $10 on transit per month . Groceries are about 218.12 percent lower in Buenos Aires than in NYC. Likewise, the cost of airfare and immigration will come out to be around $1,000. These numbers will vary depending on your spending patterns.

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Cost of Living

Although Argentina is a moderately developed and modern country, there is still a lot to do in terms of accessibility for individuals with disabilities. Infrastructure for individuals with visual, hearing, and physical disabilities is rare and wheelchair users will have a hard time finding ramps and even lowered curbs. Some museums have handicap accessible ramps or lifts and offer special guided tours for the visually-impaired and signed tours for the hearing-impaired. However, tourist sites are not comprehensively adapted for visitors with disabilities.

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Accessibility Abroad, NYU                    
Disability Summit, Argentina 2019
In Argentina, 1 in 10 People Live with a Disability
Pandemic exacerbates challenges facing Argentina’s disabled community

Argentina is thought to be a very safe country, however, we strongly advise women to follow precautions and safety measures as they would in any foreign country. Overall, Argentina is ranked 77th in the Gender Inequality Index Rank. The income inequality continues to be a big problem with a wage gap of 26 percent. Nonetheless, the status of women in Argentina has steadily increased since the reintroduction of democracy in 1983.

Feminism in Argentina is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women in Argentina. In the last decade of the 21st century, Argentinian feminisms have become one of the largest movements in Latin American. On December 29th, 2020, the Congress passed the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law, making Argentina the third country in Latin America to legalise abortion.

Additional Links:
Ni Una Menos - A Femininst Organization (Spanish)
Ministerio de las Mujeres, Géneros y Diversidad (Spanish)

Argentina is reported to be a LGBTQ+ friendly destination. With regard to sexuality, Buenos Aires has vibrant LGBTQ+ scenes and students are unlikely to face harassment for being open about their sexuality. This is even the case in the campo, or countryside, although rural areas can be more conservative than the country’s cities. 

Argentina legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, but the gender diversity movement has a long history in the country. It emerged in the 1970s and continued its political organization for more than forty years. Since Argentina’s return to democracy, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transvestites, transgender, intersex and queer movement (LGBTTTIQ) has been an intense advocate, and its efforts are reflected in the demands for acceptance and social inclusion that slowly but surely were granted, demands expressed in terms of human rights. 

At present, Argentina not only recognizes but also guarantees the free exercise of sexual orientation. People can introduce themselves in different ways and it is necessary to respect all self-definitions. The Gender Identity Law allows people to modify the name, image and gender in the personal identification document.

Additional Links:
What Drove Argentina's Emergence as an LGBT Rights Leader
Federación Argentina LGTB – a website that centralizes information on LGBT life in Argentina (in Spanish)

Argentines tend to conceptualize all North Americans as white. For example, African Americans or Hispanic Americans may be thought to be from Brazil or other Latin American countries rather than the US. Similarly, students of Asian descent may be considered Chinese regardless of their origin. As Argentines of African and Asian descent are few, especially outside Argentina’s urban centers, there are relatively few goods and services designed for students of these ethnicities. Students of color should not feel overly concerned about experiencing discrimination in Argentina. Still, this should not be interpreted to mean that prejudice and racism are nonexistent there.

Below there are some recommended links related to this subject:                
Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots
National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism - INADI (Spanish)
The Armenian community of Argentina
Little Korea in Buenos Aires
Indigenous peoples in Argentina
Collectivities from Buenos Aires
Museum of Immigration
Jewish Virtual Library: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Most Argentines are nominally Roman Catholic with a smaller number of them worshiping regularly. In addition to the Catholics, there is a small number of Protestant Christians in Argentina. There is also a big Jewish community who migrated there towards the end of the nineteenth century from Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East, and following World War II. There is also a small Muslim community in Buenos Aires. Pentecostalism continues to take root in rural and lower-income communities across Argentina. Over the previous three decades, New Age and Eastern religions have gained popularity among some middle and upper-class Argentines. Overall, Students should feel comfortable openly practicing their faith in Argentina.

Additional Links:
2018 Report on International Religious Freedom: Argentina