{"id":29886,"date":"2016-07-09T08:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T11:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=29886"},"modified":"2016-07-09T08:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T11:13:21","slug":"residents-of-the-formal-city-have-prejudiced-views-towards-favelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=29886","title":{"rendered":"Residents of the Formal City Have Prejudiced Views Towards Favelas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Ag\u00eancia Brasil\u00a0in Portuguese published by Carta Capital on February 16, 2015,\u00a0<\/em>click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Study shows that 47% of people living in formal city neighborhoods would never hire a favela resident to work in their homes.<\/h3>\n

A study by the Institute of Popular Data<\/a>\u00a0shows that residents of the formal city, known colloquially as “the asphalt,” still hold prejudices<\/a> about people who live in the informal city, or favelas. Researchers spoke with 3,050 in 150 cities throughout the country between January 15 and 19.<\/p>\n

The study finds that 47% of people living in formalized city neighborhoods would never hire a favela resident to work in their homes. Renato Meirelles, president of the Institute of Popular Data, notes that Rio de Janeiro is the exception, since a third of its female favela workforce is employed as domestic workers. \u201cIn Rio, we see a phenomenon not present in other metropolitan areas, which is a greater number of favelas located near the wealthier parts of the city,\u201d he says. This explains the greater interaction between asphalt and favela residents in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

Meirelles identifies another significant fact of this relationship: \u201cIn Rio, we found a lot of people who did not explicitly tell their bosses they lived in a favela. It\u2019s common to find cases of people giving very vague information about where they actually live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study reveals a prejudice regarding violence<\/a>: 69% of asphalt residents interviewed said they felt afraid when they were near a favela, and 51% reported \u201cdrugs\u201d and \u201cviolence\u201d as the first words that came to mind when they hear about favelas. \u201cThey\u2019re afraid that if they hire someone who lives in a favela they will become another victim of robbery or assault, as if all favela residents were criminals. In reality, we know that criminality is a minor part of\u00a0life in the favela.\u201d Meirelles believes that violence is as present today in the asphalt neighborhoods as it is in the favelas.<\/p>\n

The stigma<\/a> of crime \u201cdates from the beginnings of the favelas\u2013which emerged from\u00a0occupation in\u00a0the absence of government<\/a>,\u201d says Meirelles. This absence<\/a>\u00a0left an opening for drug trafficking<\/a> to move into the communities and assume\u00a0control as well.<\/p>\n

According to Meirelles, the association of drugs and violence with the favelas is a stereotype fed by a stream of negative press about the communities<\/a>. He suspects there is a cultural dynamic behind the image asphalt residents hold of people in favelas.<\/p>\n

While the data are alarming, Meirelles says, it would have been worse ten years ago. \u201cBecause for the last ten years, you\u2019ve had the pacification of some favelas<\/a>, and also soap operas that take place in favelas or other outlying areas exploring themes other than violence.\u201d The book A Country Called Favela<\/em><\/a>, published in 2014\u00a0by the Institute of Popular Data, placed favelas at the center of the electoral debate.<\/p>\n

Meirelles says that lately he has been hearing a deeper discussion about the reality of the favelas. \u201cThat\u2019s good.\u201d He points out that favela entrepreneurship<\/a> is growing rapidly. Two-thirds of favela residents who ten years ago belonged to social classes D and E moved up to class C<\/a>\u00a0as the country\u2019s economy improved. However, favela residents still face the barrier of prejudice as they attempt to overcome difficulties related to the state\u2019s absence in their communities, and lack of educational access.<\/p>\n

Securing a decent job is also more difficult, he says, since most favela residents are black<\/a> and more households are led by women<\/a>, who earn less than men. There is a lower rate of education<\/a> in favelas than on the asphalt. \u201cIn other words, people in favelas have far fewer opportunities than those on the asphalt to open their own businesses, get good jobs, and make economic progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full study was released at the 2nd<\/sup> New Brazilian Favela Forum at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in S\u00e3o Paulo on March 3. During the event, another study was presented in which 2,000\u00a0Brazilian favela residents shared their views regarding asphalt residents. They also discussed what they do for entertainment, their consumption preferences,\u00a0and what they buy in favelas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Ag\u00eancia Brasil\u00a0in Portuguese published by Carta Capital on February 16, 2015,\u00a0click here. Study shows that 47% of people living in formal city neighborhoods would never hire […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":25956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,1282,1330],"tags":[109,445,1030,182,188,1366,534,558,124,740,453],"writer":[539],"translator":[508],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-perceptions","8":"category-research-analysis","9":"category-translation","10":"tag-community-business","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-favela-data-institute","13":"tag-government-neglect","14":"tag-history","15":"tag-analyzing-media-portrayal-of-favelas","16":"tag-misperceptions","17":"tag-prejudice","18":"tag-race","19":"tag-research-findings","20":"tag-stigma","21":"writer-agencia-brasil","22":"translator-rachel-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=29886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}