Estrangeiros na metrópole: territórios e fronteiras da alteridade em São Paulo

Abstract

In the context of population flows driven by contemporary globalization, the displacements to São Paulo, the major metropolitan center of the country, are charged with multiple layers of meaning. This article seeks to discuss in the light of theoretical, albeit incipient, views the complex net of interpretations both of the integration and resistance of foreigners in the city through the establishment of territorialities, processes of stigmatization and otherness, working and housing conditions, and building ways of living at the margins and in a vulnerable condition.