ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the implications of the clientelistic connections that emerge in the process of implementing social policies targeting the urban poor. It examines the implications of the logic of “investment in human capital” as a rationale of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program. The book focuses on the narratives and representations of intimate connections, such as the family, by the people living in the transnational social field, which is increasingly permeated by neoliberal governmentality. It argues the significance of loose and transient solidarity among middle-class professionals caught up in the fragmented transnational social field. The book presents ethnographies that indicate the consequences of the contemporary neoliberal restructuring of “the social” and the kind of alternative public sphere for the people's security that can be observed in such a restructuring process.
