Volume 5 issue 1 february 2018
Palestinian Refugee Camps and Brazilian Favelas as Urban Heterotopias
AMANDA SA DIAS
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In spite of their historical differences, the social and economic situation in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and favelas in Brazil are closely aligned: both are subject to precarious living conditions and various levels of exclusion, characterised by strong social and racial segregation, inequality in the material resources available in the city, absence of a formal system of space management and everyday violence. Camps and favelas constitute spaces at the margins of the city and the state, and this is exactly what makes their comparison possible.
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