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The New War on the Poor: The Production of Insecurity in Latin America

By John Gledhill

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781350223363, 9781783603022
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2590471 bytes)
Pages
\251
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 20:04:00

Description

When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals. The mistreatment by police and soldiers examined in this book reflects a new kind of stigmatization. The New War on the Poor links the experiences of labour migrants crossing Latin America’s international borders, indigenous Mexicans defending their territories against capitalist mega-projects, drug wars and paramilitary violence, Afro-Brazilians living on the urban periphery of Salvador, and farmers and business people tired of paying protection to criminal mafias. John Gledhill looks at how and why governments are failing to provide security to disadvantaged citizens while all too often painting them as a menace to the rest of society simply for being poor.

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