Afectaciones de la inseguridad ciudadana en las mujeres trabajadoras del cantón Vinces. Estudio con mujeres dedicadas al comercio informal, en el año 2025.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the experiences of citizen insecurity in the lives of women engaged in informal commerce in the Nicaragua sector of the Vinces canton. The goal is to highlight the problem and contribute to research on insecurity. The study is based on ecological theory and a qualitative, hermeneutic methodology at a descriptive and applied level. The final sample consisted of six women from the informal economy in this area, who participated in semi-structured interviews. The results provide a characterization of these women who have taken up this role as a means of selling food to support their mothers and to meet their families' expenses and needs. They are exposed to multiple forms of insecurity, including robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and even witnessing the murders of others. This has impacted their economy, their daily routine, their socialization, having to implement security measures, coping with this insecurity, on their own, supporting each other as women, with groups on social networks, changing schedules or adjusting to new sales trends; since they mention not having the support of the police or local authorities.