Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”

Muñoz, Solange

doi:10.1080/24694452.2017.1392284

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“…These laws differ across states and countries, but informal housing leads to increased housing vulnerability in almost every context. For example, residents of informally acquired housing in urban centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, face imminent eviction due to the inability to secure land tenure (Muñoz 2018 ). In the US context, residents in informal communities along the Texas-Mexico border suffer from a lack of community infrastructure and access to social programs due to their informal status (Ward 2014 ).…”

Section: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Post-disaster Housing Reconstructionmentioning

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Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Housing Reconstruction in Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria

2021

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Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused widespread destruction in Puerto Rico in 2017. In the absence of government recovery support and denial of assistance based on ownership, many households have engaged in a process of informal reconstruction. While informal reconstruction can provide an alternate path to recovery, its uncontrolled and unchecked nature carries inherent safety risks and ambiguous legal status. Due to the inherent uncertainties in informal housing and its known consequences, it is important to identify households that may be more likely to engage in informal reconstruction, to promote and support safe building practices and access to resources. This is especially important in a context where informality is often seen as ‘inevitable.’ Socioeconomic vulnerability is a useful framework to understand these trends as vulnerability can restrict a household’s ability to engage with the formal construction sector, encouraging those households to pursue other methods of recovery. This study aims to understand the individual and compounding effects of socioeconomic vulnerabilities on household use of informal reconstruction. Data collection includes household surveys ( N = 305) in the municipalities of Loíza and Yabucoa in Puerto Rico. Results suggest that socioeconomic vulnerabilities work in a compounding manner affecting household decisions to use informal reconstruction; specifically, a compounding effect exists in the combination of the absence of ownership documents and unemployment. Results from this study can inform housing recovery programs to identify households that are more likely to engage in informal housing reconstruction and ensure they receive the right support and resources to promote safe recovery.

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Section: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Post-disaster Housing Reconstructionmentioning

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Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Housing Reconstruction in Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria

2021

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“…With specific reference to Buenos Aires, but capable of wider application to the global South. Muñoz () writes of the precarity of home for many residents in marginal communities. And goes on to argue that since home is an important space for access to resources, precarious housing should be part of arguments for rights to the city.…”

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The urban effects of the emerging middle class in the global south

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Martínez

2020

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This article explores the implications of a growing middle‐income population on the cities of the global South. The emergence of this group, situated between the poor and the very rich, long the standard binary categorization of understanding the global urban South, has important implications for physical reconfigurations and changing social structures. We discuss the reasons behind the rise of this middle‐income category, note some of its characteristics and review its urban impacts. We focus on just three themes: new consumption patterns, housing markets and, urban politics. We contribute to broader theories of global urbanism by highlighting how an expanding middle‐income‐class are shaping and configuring a new urban realm in the global South.

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“…Research increasingly demonstrates that experiences and meanings of precarity are diverse, including "unfree life" (Harker, 2012), productive ambiguity (Simone, 2011), and possibility (Hardgrove, Rootham, & McDowell, 2015). Some critical approaches to theorising such diversity analyse everyday life to offer a balanced account of structure and agency (Butler, 2012;Ettlinger, 2007;Munoz, 2018). For migrants, state exclusions and regulations, many socio-legal in nature, direct the conduct of everyday life (Bhabha, 2002;De Genova, 2004).…”

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Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Bailey

Hankins

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Population Space and Place

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We develop the concept of linked lives to deepen understanding of the relationship between migration and precarity. Linked lives and precariousness are mutually constitutive as they embed subjects in the social, spatial, and temporal relations of everyday life while referencing transitions, trajectories, and biographies that unfold through the life course. Studying linked lives draws attention to how cumulative social and cultural processes, including familyhood and belonging, contribute to the persistence of precarity. On the basis of 64 qualitative interviews with selected newcomer migrants in Hong Kong, we describe how precariousness was not just restricted to exploitative employment or limited rights but enveloped multiple domains of everyday life, including housing and social fields. Respondents associated precariousness with feelings of generalised pressure and disrupted spacetimes and connected it with their expectations for familyhood, employment, social life, and belonging. We argue that the mutual constitution of precariousness and linked lives has important implications for social policy and close with a call for the creation of resourceful spacetimes that support linked lives and, more widely, a more participatory process of formulating social policy for migrants.

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Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”

Cited by 27 publications

References 39 publications

Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Housing Reconstruction in Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria

Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Housing Reconstruction in Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria

The urban effects of the emerging middle class in the global south

Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

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