Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

by Javier Auyero

Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a polluted shantytown on the capital's outskirts, while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822352338
• ISBN13: 9780822352334
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.4"