Odd jobs, and beggars: permanent sample of inequality and poverty in the city of Cúcuta, North Santander, Colombia

This paper makes a theoretical and reflexive approach to inequality and poverty in San José de Cúcuta, North Santander, border between Colombia and Venezuela. It presents factors associated with unemployment, which contribute to begging, alms and odd jobs from a socio–economic environment, collects basic information applying a semi-structured survey (random) to a specific population: determining agents of a permanent practice of informal economy in the city. The results refer to a population sample from, for the most part, to a different regions of the country, associated with such aspects of not only economic, but social and forced displacement because of internal armed conflict and violence (IDPs: Internally Displaced Persons), leading to their establishment in the city which has generated health, education, security problems, among others.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6701
• Fecha de publicación: 2013
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/11870
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/cenes/article/view/2072; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/11870
• Palabra clave: beggars; begging; odd jobs; unemployment; informal economy; poverty.; Limosneros; mendicidad; rebusque; desempleo. (Beggars; begging; odd jobs; unemployment)
• License: Copyright (c) 2013 William Rodrigo Avendaño Castro, Luisa Stella Paz Montes