Living differently: housing, living conditions and the production of the otherness of Bolivians in São Paulo

• Grant number: 14/21387-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Maura Pardini Bicudo Véras
• Grantee: Fabio Martinez Serrano Pucci
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This is a project built from the concern for the living conditions of Bolivians in São Paulo's municipality. The main objective is to identify, analyze and establish relations between the composition of Bolivian's territories in the city, the different housing precarious solutions and the degree in which this contingent is attended by the social policies and public services. The main hypothesis is that the exclusion from the housing's formal market, the attendance by the social policies and the production of the otherness are related with the lack of documentation, the informal working agreements in the sewing's trade - which conditions the precarious housing -, and the differences of habits and culture of these immigrants. (AU)