Economic Integration versus Social Avoidance: Assessing Neighborhood Relationships Between the Shanty Town of Calabar and its Surrounding Upper-class Gated Communities | Integração econômica vs evitamento social: analisando relações de bairro entre a favela de Calabar e os condomínios de elite circundantes
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Título
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Economic Integration versus Social Avoidance: Assessing Neighborhood Relationships Between the Shanty Town of Calabar and its Surrounding Upper-class Gated Communities | Integração econômica vs evitamento social: analisando relações de bairro entre a favela de Calabar e os condomínios de elite circundantes
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Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais
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Autor
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Stephan Treuke
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Assunto
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Neighborhood Effects
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Opportunity Structures
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Shanty Town
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Social Segmentation
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Territorial Stigmatization.
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Urban Poverty
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Abstract
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Resumo
This research assesses the impact of neighborhood effects on the well-being of thirty inhabitants in Calabar, a shanty-town set within an upper-class area of Salvador (Brazil). We adopted a threefold methodological framework in order to explore the material, social and symbolic dimensions of the neighborhood effects based on a set of interviews. With regard to the material dimension, cross-class interactions via the employment nexus are fostered through geographic proximity; however social segmentation regarding access to schools, hospitals and leisure activities have reinforced the social hierarchies. In the social dimension, a high degree of cohesion and solidarity has entailed positive implications for the job search processes, access to resources and a strengthening of territorial identity. With the symbolic dimension, statistical discrimination has entailed deleterious effects on economic integration. In conclusion, the hypothesis of an opportunity-enriching environment should be subjected to careful scrutiny since the economic integration of the inhabitants neither bridges the social distances nor impedes place-based discrimination.
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volume
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21
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issue
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1
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Páginas
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117-117
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Date
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2019/01/24
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Língua
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en
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doi
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10.22296/2317-1529.2019v21n1p117
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issn
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2317-1529
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título curto
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Economic Integration versus Social Avoidance
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Rights
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Copyright (c) 2019 Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais
