Favela e remoção em Juiz de Fora: um estudo sobre a Vila da Prata

Abstract

The objective of this work is to think over the long trajectory of the existence of slums in Juiz de Fora City. We consider that the slums are basically constituted by occupied sites of the city in clandestineness, where the poverty and social exclusion are predominant and their residents suffer from social marginality and invisibility stigmatization. Through the analysis of the clandestine origin of Vila da Prata (Silver Village) in Juiz de Fora, its destruction by the government, followed by the removal of its residents, we had the intention to trace the process how slums have gone through the 1960´s and the 1970´s. We believe that with this work we had described in briefly the facts that motivated the creation of slums as well as the resistances and struggles of these residents as social individuals.