Writings, studies, reports, notes, and printed matter relating to urban poverty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, internal migration in Brazil, and urban poverty elsewhere in the developing world. In part, used as research material for Perlman's books The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro (Berkeley, 1976) and Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press, 2010).

American political scientist.

152 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders (65.7 Linear Feet)

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