POVERTY AND MARGINALITY

Poverty and Marginality

Poverty and marginality

Purpose of the study

The main objective in wiring this article was to differentiate the famous stereotypes of the urban poor, and to compare the real present life of Rio's favelas. The study shows how the policies affect their lives and the population which was continuously growing (Fainstein, 2002).

The study showed a critic on the existing paradigm of the time related to the migrants of rural-urban and the communities that are scattered and built their own way when there's no affordable options. The author spent and lived 18 months in the slums to experience the lives of the people living there. The book tells about the vast city of the population and the urbanization of the existing poverty. The author describes the people as those who aren't unimportant and are related to the society. They are bound of the system, have hopes, contribute through their hard work. The people aren't communally and efficiently unimportant rather are manipulated, oppressed, repressed and debarred (Fainstein, 2002).

Those who reside in favelas are the citizens of the country the same way as other citizens are. The only difference is between having rights and choices, honest workers and criminals, and inefficient criminals or criminals targeted by unjust and corrupt system.

The concept of marginality

Marginality describes and analyzes the spheres of socio-economic, culture and political, where the deprived people struggle to achieve resources of social life. It defines the concept of social framework where human dimensions are focused such as demography, culture, religion, societal structure, economics and politics and resources divided altogether and individually (Perlman, 1976).

One of the concepts of marginality discussed in the book is internal disorganization where it means voluntary associations, friendship and kinship, trust, mutual help and crime and violence, whereas the favelas lack social ...