Amoebas: Socio-territorial metamorphosis in venezuelan migrants’ neighborhood. The case of Villa Caracas in Barranquilla (Colombia)

Abstract

Is Villa Caracas a neighborhood? For Colombian neighbors, this settlement of Venezuelan migrants in Barranquilla is a “no place”. For the ancient residents, this locality is just a deplorable shantytown that invaded a clay territory. However, the inhabitants do their best to transform their shacks into a home, the quagmire into streets with an even urban sense. This photo-essay emerged from an ethnographic investigation. This study wants to capture the daily socio-territorial metamorphosis through which this space is transformed into a neighborhood, even if it only exists in the imagination and in images.