The metamorphosis of marginality: Four generations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 606, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-177

  Perlman, Janice E ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Mega Cities Project

Author keywords

Barriers to livelihoods; Democracy; Exclusion; Favelas; Intergenerational transmission of poverty; Marginality; Urban poverty; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745712185     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206288826     Document Type: Review

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