This paper examines the asset vulnerability and livelihood strategies of refugees and the urban poor in slum settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Asset Vulnerability Framework is used as the analytical framework of how household’s assets are affected by vulnerability. Using qualitative analysis, factors which impact on the livelihood assets of both groups are examined. The paper focuses on the five main assets as indicated by Moser, while conceptualising further the assets which both populations aspire to accumulate, and which are necessary for them to prosper–rights, in this case the Right to the City. The paper, therefore, attempts to develop linkages between these areas: asset vulnerability, displacement and the Right to the City. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Dar es Salaam asset vulnerability Urban Refugees Livelihoods Right to the city

Tanzania urban area displacement Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] informal settlement Dar es Salaam [Dar es Salaam (RGA)] low income population refugee vulnerability livelihood