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Urban Margins and Nomadic Marginalities

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Grounded relationalities, the socio-ecological (de/re)territorialization of São Paulo's urban marginalities [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
This paper explores how marginal urbanities are produced, contested, and dismantled through grounded processes of territorialization, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization.
L. Lerchs, L. Lerchs
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Urbanization and marginalization

2019
From research among vulnerable urban individuals it is known that mental illness and substance use disorders are risk factors for social marginalization, homelessness, and poverty. The majority of homeless individuals have experienced early-childhood trauma, maltreatment, foster care, and family dysfunction. Limited access to physical and mental health
Michael Krausz, Verena Strehlau, Fiona Choi, Kerry L. Jang   +3 more
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Mobilizing at the Urban Margins

2023
In October 2019, unprecedented mobilizations in Chile took the world by surprise. An outburst of protests plunged a stable democracy into the deepest social and political crisis since its dictatorship in the 1980s. Although the protests involved a myriad of organizations, the organizational capabilities provided by underprivileged urban dwellers proved
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In harm’s way at the urban margins

Ethnography, 2012
Residents of poor barrios in Buenos Aires are deeply worried about widespread violence (domestic, sexual, criminal, and police) and about environmental hazards – two dimensions of marginalization that policy-makers tend to disregard and social scientists of the ethnographic persuasion seldom treat together for what they are: producers of harm. Based on
Javier Auyero, Agustín Burbano de Lara
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Violence and the State at the Urban Margins

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2013
Based on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork in a violence-ridden, low-income district located in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, this article examines the state’s presence at the urban margins and its relationships to widespread depacification of poor people’s daily life.
Javier Auyero, Agustín Burbano de Lara, María Fernanda Berti   +2 more
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Empowering Urban Margins:

AFRICA HABITAT REVIEW
In Nairobi’s informal settlements, land tenure insecurity perpetuates poverty, eviction risks, and limited service access. This study examines Baba Dogo in Ruaraka Sub-County, where undocumented claims, bureaucracy, and socio-economic vulnerabilities hinder investments.
Wahiga, Eunice, Kasuku, Silvester
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Violence at the Urban Margins

2015
Acknowledgements Introduction Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero Section 1: Shared Understandings Chapter One: The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua Dennis Rodgers Chapter Two: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois ...
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Urban Marginality in the Coming Millennium

Urban Studies, 1999
This paper sketches a characterisation of the regime of urban marginality that has emerged in advanced societies since the close of the Fordist era, highlighting four logics that combine to produce it: a macrosocietal drift towards inequality, the mutation of wage labour (entailing both deproletarianisation and casualisation), the retrenchment of ...
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Slums, Ghettos, and Urban Marginality

Urban Geography, 2010
Following the riots of 2005, many commentators were drawn to a comparison of Paris's "problem areas" with the U.S. urban ghetto. But are the poor suburbs of Paris truly akin to the Black ghetto of Chicago, the quintessential American city of sociological lore? Urban Outcasts makes a powerful case against the efficacy of the comparison.
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