violencias institucionales y reproducción de estigmas.pdf

By means of the legal/illegal and legitimate/illegitimate categories, we propose to study the discourse of human rights and their everyday vulnerabilityregarding smoked cocaine users in Montevideo, Uruguay. These subjects belong to the poorest places of the population, and are notoriously affectedby stigma, structural violence, and inequality. This work summarizes the results of an ethnographic research process with users of smoked cocaine,and shows how the continuum of violence sets the bodies and identities of the subjects in a way that makes their participation harder in networksother than in the illegal market. It also aims at conducting processes of social and health rehabilitation.