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Conceptualizing the Survival Sector in Madagascar

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Summary, in English

This article calls for the recognition of a subsector of the informal economy, which is conceptualized as the survival sector. Based on empirical evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar it is suggested that beggars, street children and other marginalized people constitute a separate, non-productive subsector of the economy, which is also distinguishable from formal and informal economies because of other aspects, such as the character of its social and economic networks, survival strategies, patterns of social and physical mobility, and the social and public spaces occupied. Given the vast number of marginalized people in the world, it seems useful to consider a survival sector of its own that is, despite interlinkages, fundamentally different from other components of the informal economy.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

321-342

Publication/Series

Antipode

Volume

44

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • beggars
  • marginalized people
  • informal economy
  • Madagascar
  • street
  • children

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0066-4812