The use of eugenic and hygienist discourses with the purpose of social segregation of peripheral populations

Abstract

Globalization and the advance of capitalism have generated great advances in terms of historical evolution and development of societies, however, both have not only promoted benefits, they have also promoted social concerns, among them the emergence of social standards in which those who did not fit into them were segregated, excluded, in this context we can note the genesis of segregationist and eugenicist discourses. Thus, the objective of this article is to discuss the concepts of social hygiene, eugenic and hygienist discourses and how they cause urban and social segregation. To carry out this task, research and bibliographic review on the subject in question were used to ascertain what had already been produced of scientific material on the subject and was used by the deductive research method, starting from major premises to minor ones, until a conclusion.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevenIVmulti2023-035