Residential segregation and ethnic discrimination in the Lisbon metropolitan area: through children's eyes

This article focuses on the first phase of a case study aiming to examine children's socialization in six public housing neighborhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan area. Based on a combination of qualitative methodologies - including visual techniques -, residential segregation and ethnic discrimination emerged as structural axes in children's lives in this context. The ethnicization of social ties and networks in the neighborhoods, here discussed through the children's eyes, serves to build their skills, structuring their present relations with peers and adults. Residential segregation is represented as a form of violence: on the one hand, physically, by the limitations it imposes on children's lives; on the other hand, of a symbolic nature, by the effects it brings to social relations.

Children; Social Housing Policies; Social Ecology; Ethnic Discrimination; Violence