Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South: Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in São Paulo

A rigorous examination of poverty in SÃ o Paulo, a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South explores the different types of network that exist amongst the metropolitan poor, the conditions that shape and influence them, their consequences for the production of poverty and the mechanisms through which networks influence daily living conditions.

Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques is Livre-docente Professor in the Department of Political Science and a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil