Author: Sara Brandellero Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000057682 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 262
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Reflecting on some of Brazil’s foremost challenges, this book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions. It brings together work by established scholars from Brazil, Europe and the United States to think through how (il)legalities are produced and represented at the level of institutions, (daily) practice and culture. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the chapters cover issues including informal work practices (e.g. street vendors), urban squatter movements and migration. Alongside social practices, the volume features close analyses of cultural practices and cultural production, including migrant literature, punk music and indigenous art. The question of (il)legalities resonates beyond Brazil’s borders, as concepts such as "lawfare" have crept into vocabularies, and countries the world over grapple with issues like state interference, fake news and the definition of "illegal" migration. This is valuable reading for scholars in Brazilian and Latin American Studies, as well as those working in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, geography and political science.
Author: Jean Daudelin Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319762494 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 98
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This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality and violence cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning of drug markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil’s North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart of the country’s most violent metropolitan area. Building on extensive interviews and field work, the authors map out the city’s drug markets and explore the reasons why some of those markets are violent, and others are not. The analysis focuses on the micromechanics of each market, looking at consumption patterns and at the workings of retail sales and distribution. Such a systematic micro-level comparative analysis of the workings of Latin American drug markets is simply not available elsewhere in current literature. These findings point to significant gaps in current understandings of the link between illegal markets and violence, and they illuminate the need to factor in the way in which those markets are nested in exclusionary social contexts.
Author: Publisher: Human Rights Watch ISBN: 9781564320483 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 84
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The Brazilian government is failing to prosecute violence against women in the home fully and fairly. Despite ever-increasing domestic violence-particularly wife-murder, battery and rape-impunity and discriminatory treatment in favor of the perpetrators of domestic violence are still the rule in the Brazilian justice system.
Author: Dr. Mark O'Doherty Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359188338 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 160
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With the world's fourth largest democracy having elected a far-right, dictatorship-praising president into power, emotions are running high in Brazil; especially among the survivors of the 1964-85 military dictatorship in Brazil, when hundreds were killed or disappeared by a regime bent on wiping out a perceived communist threat ? today's Brazil being at risk of becoming a dictatorship again, with police violence, inhumane prison conditions and human rights abuses having increased dramatically; especially among the LGBT population: 277 LGBT people having been killed in 2018, the highest number since 1980. Social inequality is another topic this book explores, with more than fifty million Brazilians ? nearly 25 percent of the population ? living below the poverty line; having family incomes of no more than $389 per month and only $5.50 a day. Hence this book endeavours to improve human rights, democracy and social equality in Brazil; so that peace and harmony can be manifested in this beautiful country again.
Author: Dr. Mark O'Doherty Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1678120839 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 159
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With the world's fourth largest democracy having elected an oppressive, far-right government into power, emotions are running high in Brazil - today's Brazil being at risk of becoming a dictatorship again, with press freedom violations, police violence and overall human rights violations increasing dramatically in the country - especially among the LGTB community, Brazil having the highest number of transgender murders globally. Inequality is another topic this book explores, with more than fifty million Brazilians - nearly 25 percent of the population - living below the poverty line; having family incomes of no more than $389 per month and only $5.50 a day. Also, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a lucrative business largely driven by criminal networks that threaten and attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people who try to stop them; according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Hence it is very important that rule-of-law, justice, peace and prosperity are restored in Brazil.
Author: R. Ben Penglase Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813573939 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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The residents of Caxambu, a squatter neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, live in a state of insecurity as they face urban violence. Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela examines how inequality, racism, drug trafficking, police brutality, and gang activities affect the daily lives of the people of Caxambu. Some Brazilians see these communities, known as favelas, as centers of drug trafficking that exist beyond the control of the state and threaten the rest of the city. For other Brazilians, favelas are symbols of economic inequality and racial exclusion. Ben Penglase’s ethnography goes beyond these perspectives to look at how the people of Caxambu themselves experience violence. Although the favela is often seen as a war zone, the residents are linked to each other through bonds of kinship and friendship. In addition, residents often take pride in homes and public spaces that they have built and used over generations. Penglase notes that despite poverty, their lives are not completely defined by illegal violence or deprivation. He argues that urban violence and a larger context of inequality create a social world that is deeply contradictory and ambivalent. The unpredictability and instability of daily experiences result in disagreements and tensions, but the residents also experience their neighborhood as a place of social intimacy. As a result, the social world of the neighborhood is both a place of danger and safety.
Author: Binka Le Breton Publisher: Kumarian Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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* Winner of the 2004 Harry Chapin Media Judges Award from World Hunger Year * A vivid, highly readable book by a resident of Brazil who set off by bus and motorbike to unearth the realities of this hidden trade and expose them to the world The illegal trade in people is surpassed in scale only by that in drugs and arms. In huge ranches deep in the Amazon, migrant workers are enmeshed in a web of debt, deceit, and cruelty -- trapped in the illegal trade in humans. Trapped documents the lives of these workers, allowing them to tell their own stories. Le Breton also talks with those who benefit from this injustice, as well as those fighting against it, and offers suggestions on how it can be consigned to history.
Author: Jemera Rone Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 148
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Sober and gripping chronicle of the repression of demands for agrarian reform includes several well-detailed case studies. Presents excellent background on the justice system and its uneven enforcement of the law--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v.57.
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