The social condition of the squatter area’s residents and its role in the spread of the covid-19 pandemic: The case of Hamryah in the city of Guercif (eastern Morocco)
الأوضاع الاجتماعية لساكنة أحياء الصفيح ودورها في انتشار جائحة كوفيد 19: حالة حي حمرية بمدينة جرسيف (شرق المغرب)
Abstract
The fragility of the social and living conditions of the residents of squatter areas, and the deterioration of their basic infrastructure, provide the adequate conditions for the emergence of epidemic and its speeding, The city of Guercif knows an important presence of this type of neighborhoods, which appeared under specific circumstances and expanded outside the requirement of the law, and the Hamriyah neighborhood, in northwest of the city, is considered to be the largest of all of them in terms of both, its area and population, Therefore this article seeks to highlight how the socio-economic condition of the neighborhood’s residents –which is marked with fragility- contribute to the spread of the covid-19 pandemic, by exploring the Scio-economic conditions of the residents and their housing conditions in relation to the emergence of pandemic.
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