Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires

by Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián

In Squatter Life , sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofía Servián detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina's urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with personal narratives of Servián's experience growing up and living in a squatter settlement, the authors examine how Argentina's squatter communities contend with violence and secure necessities like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478031506
• ISBN13: 9781478031505
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.