Metropolitics

Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei's Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | Integración o motosierra: Reflexiones sobre las políticas de crueldad en la Argentina de Milei a partir del caso ReNaBaP

Facundo A. Corti — 2025-05-20T05:00:00Z

Policy efforts in Argentina to reduce housing inequality have been met with Milei's chainsaw. Facundo A. Corti shows how the state has made the fight for housing equality a one-sided struggle.
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The National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods (Registro Nacional de Barrios Populares, or ReNaBaP) was created in 2017 through Decree 358, which institutionalized a registry initiated the previous year by civil society

- From the Field / Argentina, Latin America, South America, Global South, housing, housing policy, informal housing, informal settlements, urban integration, Javier Milei, public policy, working-class neighborhoods

Argentina: The Rental Issue in the Milei Era | Argentina: la problemática del alquiler en la era Milei

Nicolás A. Trivi — 2025-04-29T05:00:00Z

In Argentina, the reforms promoted by the libertarian government represent an offensive of capital on labor. Nicolás Trivi shows that the rental market is one of its battlefields.
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On the night of December 20, 2023, President Javier Milei spoke on a nationally obligatory all-channel media event (the “cadena nacional”) to announce the proclamation of a Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU in Spanish). The

- From the Field / Argentina, Latin America, South America, Global South, real estate, tenants, rent, rental, rental housing, Javier Milei

Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South

María V. Barbero — 2016-12-07T06:00:00Z

While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant politics have gained a following in Latin American countries as well. María Barbero examines rhetoric and resistance in Argentina.
It is 5:30 in the afternoon on November 22, 2016, and the sun is beaming on the faces of about 500 of us marching from Avenida de Mayo to the congressional palace in Buenos Aires. I am surrounded by flags of Bolivia, Paraguay, Senegal, and Brazil, the

- From the Field / immigration, Global South, Latin America, Donald Trump, immigration policy, Argentina, immigration control, migrant metropolis