Patients of the State
Patients of the State Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. Scrutinizing the mundane…
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Patients of the State
Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. Scrutinizing the mundane interactions between the poor and the state, as well as underprivileged people's confusion and uncertainty about the administrative processes that affect them, Javier Auyero argues that while waiting, the poor learn the opposite of citizenship. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a polluted shantytown on the capital's outskirts, while waiting to be allocated better housing.
They absorb the message that they should be patient and keep waiting, because there is nothing They learn to be patients of the state.