ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses one workshop held in Moron, a town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where the following objects were brought. These include s tiny souvenir of a Sicilian horse and cart carefully repaired: a coffee grinder, a coffee pot, and a beautifully preserved dress that had once belonged to one participant's grandmother who had been a seamstress. The great majority of Italian immigrants to Argentina arrived as poor, often illiterate, unskilled or semi-skilled workers, many of them peasants or agricultural workers. In general, Northern Italians went to rural Argentina whereas South Italians tended to go to cities, particularly Buenos Aires. A gatekeeper is an individual who facilitates access to the site and to participant subjects. The role of gatekeeper can be anything from one of simple formality to one of extraordinary complexity, where sought after access is deeply embedded into the research project such as when gatekeepers are also participants and subjects'.
