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Urban Poverty RebornA Gender and Generational AnalysisJeanine Anderson received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University. She is a US-born, long-time Peruvian resident. She currently coordinates graduate programs in anthropology at the Catholic University of Peru. Her areas of specialization include urban studies, gender, and social policy. She combines research and teaching with active participation in debates on social policy in Peru and other Latin American countries. [email: janders{at}pucp.edu.pe] This article draws on a longitudinal study of a poor neighborhood in Lima, Peru, to question received wisdom concerning the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The research follows a sample of 56 families over nearly 30 years. It focuses on the efforts of parents to launch their children on what they hope will be different and superior life courses (compared to their own), despite their limited resources. Members of the second generation are still likely to begin their adult lives in poverty, with notable differences in the positions and trajectories of men and women. The sources of second generation poverty are different from that of the parents, however. The case demonstrates how poverty is a dynamic and contingent process that must be related to the specific historical, political, social and cultural factors contributing to its rebirth in successive generations.
Key Words: urban poverty • urban livelihoods • intergenerational transmission of poverty • gender • Lima • Peru
Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 23, No. 1-2,
221-241 (2007) |
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