Abstract

DEL CASTILLO, Alejandra Carolina. Of Poverty and Persistences ...: A case study on urban poverty in Gran San Miguel de Tucuman (Argentina) at the beginning of the XXI century. Trab. soc. [online]. 2015, n.25, pp.493-516. ISSN 1514-6871.

The Great San Miguel de Tucumán, the most important of Northwest Argentina intermediate city experienced rapid population growth, with an expansion of poverty, which was significant in the early years of the century XXI. The development of the sugar industry, the main economic activity of the province, and neoliberal economic policies implemented in the last three decades of the twentieth century affected, among others, on this process. In this context, was selected one of the areas with the highest incidence of poverty of the aglomeratte, the neighborhood called John Paul II to investigate the characteristics of these deprivations, structural factors and intervention in this framework of persistence of poverty . They are used as sources of information to the National Census of Population and Housing 2001 and the results of semi-structured interviews with a sample of households in that neighborhood. The results show the structural difficulties of the study population to overcome poverty facing restrictions in the labor market and the lack of housing policies . The state is present as a result of the critical conditions of life and the demands of its citizens through various programs that do not solve the social deterioration and only ensure the minimum thresholds of need.

Keywords : Urban poverty; Gran San Miguel de Tucumán; Employment problems; Hábitat.

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