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Given that housing is a key element for security, access to resources, and the integration of migrant individuals, we inquire, concerning the rental market, about the forms of vulnerability to which they are exposed and the resources used (or not) to confront them. We present the case of Lima, the city that has received the largest number of Venezuelan migrants (1.1 million) in recent years. As an exploratory study, we conducted 37 interviews with tenants (27 Venezuelan migrants, 10 Peruvians). We analyzed the cases for each group, seeking common problems and strategies to address them. We found that Venezuelan individuals face challenges in searching for and staying in housing not only due to their restricted citizenship and employment in the informal sector, but also due to their limited access to social resources. As a result, they are more exposed to critical events and must confront them on their own. Consequently, their vulnerability is greater, and their housing tenure is always unstable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do people make decisions on where, when, and how to commute? And how did the pandemic crisis affect their commuting patterns? Based on exploratory interviews in Lima and family chronicles collected in Bogotá during 2020; and a second round of interviews in six low-income areas in the peripheries of these two cities during 2021, this article offers a panoramic view of the changes experienced in low-income neighbourhoods and their families during these recent years of pandemic. These changes bring to light the role of intra-household arrangements regarding mobility and accessibility. We suggest that mobility and accessibility can better be understood on a more systemic level (influenced by intra-household arrangements), as a collective phenomenon (based on the household’s resources and the household’s needs), and even as a collective decision-making process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, I study the effect of aging of neighbors on local organizations in San Felipe, a middle-class neighborhood in Lima, Peru. I elaborate on this effect by using the case of the control of public space in the neighborhood. I conducted participant observation during a year. During that year, I observed the dynamics of local organizations' meetings; I interviewed 46 residents of different characteristics; and I observed a large amount of situations and controversies among actors in San Felipe's public space. I find that senior residents are the ones who impose their point of view about the neighborhood's fortune. This result is surprising considering that senior residents are neither the most numerous group in the neighborhood, neither the one with higher resources. I claim that that happens because senior residents transform time (a scarce resource for young-adult neighbors, though abundant for the senior neighbors) into organizational power. With that organizational power, senior residents are able to influence on the municipality's functionaries who not only defend the discourse of senior residents regarding the use of public space, but also transform it according to this discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo deseo hacer una introducción a la Teoría del Actor-Red (Action-Network-Theory o ANT). Como un proyecto de sociología del conocimiento y de la ciencia que se expande a otras esferas de lo social, la ANT tiene en la perspectiva foucaultiana un contrincante natural. Por ello, presentaré un contraste entre ambas perspectivas. Esta comparación se centra en las diferencias entre sus fundamentos ontológicos (cuerpos y sujetos versus actantes y actores), sus distintas formas de aproximarse a estos (genealogía vs. traslado/traducción), y finalmente sus consecuentes metáforas o imágenes utilizadas para describir el mundo (instituciones o sistemas vs. redes o ensamblajes). Argumentaré que, aunque la perspectiva foucaultiana es inicialmente más ambiciosa que la ANT, al final acaba traicionándose a sí misma por tener, en la práctica, una fijación en el poder sobre el sujeto, y en consecuencia, por tener una visión más rígida de los sistemas que lleva a oscurecer los desvíos, negociaciones o accidentes que ocurren en el proceso de producción. Ilustraré mi argumento haciendo referencia a distintos trabajos que se guían por la perspectiva foucaultiana. También se señalarán algunas críticas a la ANT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]