El otro Madrid: el chabolismo que no cesa. Actuación autonómica en políticas de realojamiento e integración social 1997-2010

Ávila, María Jesús Lago

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“…A finales de los años cincuenta, fruto de los procesos migratorios campo-ciudad, los asentamientos autoproducidos llegaron a suponer el 16,6% del suelo residencial en Madrid (Carmona & Rodríguez, 2007;Lago, 2014). Durante el periodo franquista, la administración persiguió la autoconstrucción y desatendió la demanda de estas familias dirigida a lograr acceso a una vivienda digna y a los servicios básicos, alegando que se trataba de barrios construidos de forma "ilegal" en suelo rústico.…”

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Necropolítica de vivienda: 40 años desmantelando la “informalidad” en Madrid (1979-2019)

Andrés¹

2020

EURE (Santiago)

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resumen | En un contexto de creciente mercantilización y financiarización de la vivienda, la informalidad se ha convertido en la única alternativa, por precaria que pueda llegar a ser, para quienes han quedado excluidos del sistema formal. Desde la crisis económica de 2008, este fenómeno ha reaparecido en Europa, despertando un interés creciente. En este artículo se ha revisado el concepto de "informalidad" y se han analizado las políticas llevadas a cabo en la Comunidad de Madrid (España) en relación con los asentamientos autoproducidos en los últimos cuarenta años (1979-2019). Los resultados obtenidos muestran cómo todas las políticas han ido encaminadas a la erradicación de estas formas de autoproducción del espacio. No obstante, los planes implementados han variado en función del valor que las comunidades afectadas tenían para el poder establecido, forzándose la desaparición de aquellas que no entran en las formas de producción y consumo del sistema capitalista (necropolítica). palabras clave | marginalidad, política habitacional, desigualdad social. abstract | In a context in which access to housing has been increasingly commodified and financialized, "informality" becomes the only alternative-however precarious this may be-for those who have been excluded from the "formal" system. Since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, this phenomenon is reappearing in Europe, attracting more and more interest. In this article, we review the concept of "informality", and analyze the policies implemented in the Community of Madrid (Spain) in relation to the self-produced settlements in the last 40 years (1979-2019). The results show how all policies have aimed at the eradication of any form of self-production of space. However, the implemented plans have varied depending on the value that the affected communities had for the established power, forcing the disappearance of those that do not enter into the forms of production and consumption of the capitalist system (necro-policy).

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Necropolítica de vivienda: 40 años desmantelando la “informalidad” en Madrid (1979-2019)

Andrés¹

2020

EURE (Santiago)

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“…This constellation produces the dependency of poor migrants on their positive interactions with social workers. Although we did not conduct a comparative research with other marginalized groups in Spain, it stands to reason that the approach of social workers towards Romanian Roma is predicated on an entrenched pattern of engaging racially marginalized groups like Gitanos in Spain (Lago Ávila, 2014;Vallhonrat et al, 2015).…”

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Care-full failure: how auxiliary assistance to poor Roma migrant women in Spain compounds marginalization

Vrăbiescu

Kalir

2017

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In Spain, the national and local authorities boast in recent years about their progressive programs for the integration of Roma migrants from Romania. Many state efforts to work with Roma on their integration are specifically directed at women. Economic integration into the waged labor market is considered a major goal as it, supposedly, leads to the empowerment of Roma migrant women while also securing decent standards of living for entire families. This article argues that integration programs adversely result in the further discrimination and exclusion of those they pretend to relief. This adverse result is produced through a two-tier intervention in the lives of Roma families. The caring state works with a general category of 'vulnerability' for targeting populations, in which Roma migrant women are specifically incorporated through designated social programs. The performance of Roma as the subject-object of these programs is carefully evaluated. According to these evaluations, Roma women often fail to meet the normative standards of 'good mothers', 'decent wives', and 'diligent workers'. Subsequently, to deal with 'failing subjects', the disciplining state, a-la Foucault, inflicts an array of penalties on Roma women and their families: cut-offs of social benefits, evictions from poor dwellings, withdrawal of children's custody, and forced removals to Romania. We thus argue that initiatives by the caring state (and civil society) often prescribe or go hand-in-hand with repression from the correcting state. In welfare states, social programs can thus conclusively 'evidence' existing stereotypes about marginalized Roma families and about women in particular.

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Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

Vrăbiescu

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter engages with the current debate on Romani mobility and Spanish state practices of implementing socio-educational programs and camp housing to migrant EU citizens. Taking the Madrid city as a case study, this chapter documents and analyses temporary devices of governance that both limit and force the mobility of Romani families from Romania. Implemented by local authorities through specific policies, temporary devices of governance deliver an enforced pressure on Romani migrants who are seen as prospective "failed" subjects of integration and potential returnees. While deterring migrants from accessing territorial social benefits, local authorities and private companies acting as state proxi assign Romani families a "social contract" that aims for their integration. The authorities not only implement problematic policies, but they interpret and label the mobility of Romani as a characteristic of their "provisional" way of living and dwelling. Following Cabot (2012) and Ringel (2016) on the temporality of governance and scholarship on the anthropology of time (Munn 1992; Fabian 2014), I aim to show two entangled processes in local governance: the subject formation of Romani migrants as an ethnicized mobile minority, and the long-term adverse results of project-based, profit-oriented social work. Romani migrants have become the target of a new type of social engineering by bringing into question the establishment of citizenship: agreeing to the social contract not only presumes that Romani migrants are not members of the same community, but also suggests that their lives have a different temporality.

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El otro Madrid: el chabolismo que no cesa. Actuación autonómica en políticas de realojamiento e integración social 1997-2010

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Necropolítica de vivienda: 40 años desmantelando la “informalidad” en Madrid (1979-2019)

Necropolítica de vivienda: 40 años desmantelando la “informalidad” en Madrid (1979-2019)

Care-full failure: how auxiliary assistance to poor Roma migrant women in Spain compounds marginalization

Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

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Necropolítica de vivienda: 40 años desmantelando la &#8220;informalidad&#8221; en Madrid (1979-2019)

Care-full failure: how auxiliary assistance to poor Roma migrant women in Spain compounds marginalization

Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

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