Argentine painter Antonio Berni dealt with the hardships of living in a villa miseria through his series Juanito Laguna, a slum child, and Ramona Montiel, a prostitute.

The Villas Miseria are unplanned settlements. They appear as a result of the initiative of a group of citizens (normally from rural areas) who appropriate furtively and illegally an empty territory located on the periphery of a large city.

Las villas miseria, villas de emergencia o simplemente villas es el nombre que se le da en Argentina a los asentamientos informales caracterizados por una densa proliferación de viviendas precarias que se ubican en tierras que originariamente no son propiedad de sus ocupantes.

2024年10月4日 · A villa miseria ([ˈbiʎa miˈseɾja], [ˈbiʒa ~ ˈbiʃa ...]), or just villa, is a type of shanty town or slum found in Argentina, mostly around the largest urban settlements.

Villa miseria, villa de emergencia or just villa, is the informal term used in Argentina for shanty towns.

2018年4月4日 · Known in Spanish as villa miseria, these slum towns exist near urban settlements. The houses there are more like tiny one–room shacks made of mud, cement, wood and scrap materials.

Shanty towns emerged on the periphery of Buenos Aires from the 1930s onwards and are known as villa miseria. After the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression, 311 worker cooperatives set up across the country as people squatted and re-opened businesses.

The consolidation of villas miseria in the 1960s and their appearance in the arts as spaces of critique informs what appears to be the trend in contemporary Argentina to overexpose the margins of society in cultural production.

2020年5月27日 · The term villa miseria emerged in Argentina in the late 1950s to identify the numerous slums that were disseminated throughout the country, with a higher intensity in the capital city of Buenos Aires (Liernur 2009).

“Villa miseria” in Buenos Aires emerged as a sarcastic expression motivated by compassion and anger, coined by writers who sought to highlight the inequality that the city’s rapid expan-sion and alleged modernization produced.