Urban Forced Removals in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles: North-South Similarities in Race and City
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: In April of 2010, Rio de Janeiro's mayor, Eduardo Paes, announced that two in-city, poor, and largely Afro-Brazilian neighborhoods, Morro dos Prazeres and Laboriaux, would be cleared and all inhabitants would be forced to move. 2 Despite devastating winter storms, which had indicated again the precariousness of Rio's hillside favelas, this was not really new news.3 Rio's favelas have experienced a century of forced removal.4 The early neighborhoods were built in historically undesirable, beautiful, but steeply inaccessible parts of Rio, and today these are important pieces of Rio's real estate.5 For more than a century, many such favelas have allowed poor, working class Afro-Brazilians immediate access to the city below.6 While there are incredible challenges with living in neighborhoods cut off from good, or in some cases even basic, city services and infrastructure, the resources of the city at large continued to make these neighborhoods highly desirable for those who lived, and as importantly, worked there.7 Cities across the globe use this mandate for the forced movement of poor populations out of in-city urban neighborhoods.8 \\jciprod01\productn\I\IAL\44-2\IAL207.txt
Author: Anthony, Constance G.
Institution: University of Miami
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W844588974