%0 Journal Article 
%A Vázquez Cabrera, José Juan
%A Panadero Herrero, Sonia
%T Chronicity and pseudo inheritance of social exclusion: differences according to the poverty of the family of origin among trash pickers in León (Nicaragua)

%D 2016
%@ 0275-0392
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26526
%X People in a situation of extreme poverty and/or social exclusion mainly come from poor families and their social difficulties tend to become chronic. This situation that appears to be especially pronounced in countries with lower levels of development. This paper analyzes different aspects of people (n = 99) who make their living collecting trash from dumps in León (Nicaragua), one of the countries with the lowest levels of development in Latin America. This group is difficult to access, heavily stigmatized, lives in chronic and extreme poverty and their families of origin were also poor. The results show that the pickers in León whose families of origin were poorest had the highest illiteracy rates, were in poorest health, had experienced more stressful life events and had poorer future expectations. Negative health and life circumstances, low levels of education and fatalism may lead to the pickers' situation of social exclusion becoming chronic.

%K Poverty
%K Social exclusion
%K Trash pickers
%K Developing countries
%K Chronicity
%K Pobreza
%K Exclusión social
%K Recolectores de basura
%K Países en desarrollo
%K Cronicidad
%K Psicología
%K Sociología
%K Psychology
%K Sociology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala