In this article I describe how a permanent underclass is being inadvertently created in a South Pacific city. I use Descola's idea of equivalence in human relations to explain urban tenure and evictions in the postcolonial South Pacific city of Port Vila. Vanuatu is a nation of 82 islands. Its archipelagic geography segregates most people's autochthonous lands, preventing ready access to the national capital. Port Vila, then, is a city of non-citizens of the urban space: by accident of birth, a small number of people now control the land where virtually all poor migrants to the capital will live. This article describes how two non-equivalent relations—production and protection—feature prominently in the ways that people talk about tenure insecurity. In sum, these non-equivalent relations form the basis of how people relate to each other in terms of urban land occupancy. The pervasiveness of non-equivalence indicates a fundamental difference between denizens of Pacific cities, whose urban policies will need to adapt to account for its presence. A right to the city may look different in places where non-equivalence is at the very stamba (foundation) of how the city is made.

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非对等之城：瓦努阿图维拉港土地上的习惯附着物的制作、维护和破坏

在这篇文章中，我描述了南太平洋城市如何无意中创造了永久的下层阶级。我用德斯科拉的人际关系对等概念来解释后殖民南太平洋城市维拉港的城市保有权和驱逐行为。瓦努阿图是一个由 82 个岛屿组成的国家。它的群岛地理将大多数人的本土土地隔离开来，阻碍了他们轻松进入国家首都。那么，维拉港是一座由城市空间的非公民组成的城市：由于出生的偶然，少数人现在控制着几乎所有前往首都的贫困移民所居住的土地。本文描述了两种非对等关系——生产和保护——如何在人们谈论保有权不安全的方式中占据突出地位。总之，这些非对等关系构成了人们在城市土地占用方面相互关系的基础。不平等现象的普遍存在表明太平洋城市居民之间存在根本差异，其城市政策需要适应这种差异的存在。在城市构建方式的基础存在非对等性的地方，城市权可能看起来有所不同。