Meanings (ES + gloss)
asentamiento • asentamiento humano • barriada bruja • barriada de emergencia • barrio • barrio bajo • barrio de chabolas • barrio marginal • barrio periférico • barrio pobre • cantegril • ciudad perdida • colonia de paracaidistas • colonia proletaria • población callampa • precario • pueblo joven • tugurio • villa • villa miseria
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragmen…
I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a…
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