De la represión al reconocimiento. Derrotero de la política pública hacia los cartoneros en la CABA (2002-2011)

Abstract

In Buenos Aires city, as much as in other cities in Argentina and Latin America, issues associated to the informal gatherers of recyclables (usually known as “cartoneros”) has passed through deep transformations during the first decade of the XXI century. In a short span of time, it moved from being something ignored, to something that had to be corrected (to fight against, or to repress), until finally becoming a permanent concern for public policies dealing with the management of the urban solid waste. This work discusses these transformations as well the key factors that contributed to its still unfinished process of integration of social actors involved in informal gathering of recyclables into public policies for urban waste management.