Gender is a constituent feature of economic and social relations. This paper looks at how gender is closely linked to the increase in informal occupations among new immigrants. We focus on three jobs in the informal sector that have been institutionalised as occupations of Latin immigrants in Los Angeles, California: paid domestic work, maintenance of gardens in residential areas and itinerant sales. Gender analysis is commonly used in studies on migrant women working in the paid domestic sector, which has long been seen as a ‘natural’ paradigm of female employment. Gender, however, is not limited to the sphere of the household or to the space considered exclusively as belonging to women, but is a condition that affects all individuals and different sectors of society. We argue that the next stage of research on gender and migration will require extending gender analysis to new scenarios, including men and young people in the public sphere, thus providing an analysis of gender continuities and discontinuities in these diverse contexts. Keywords: informal sector; gender; migrant workers; masculinities; youth.