This paper revises several authors' theoretical contributions that approach the processes of "social exclusion" as a group of references configured historically in the dynamics of internationalization of the economy. This review indicates the need to distinguish among the public policies of "combat to exclusion" and those that self-attribute a characteristic of inclusion, to justify the complementarity of both. Categories and analytic elements stand out (such as the current debate between redistribution and recognition, in the field of of rights and of public policies demands) that allow identification of new social conditionings that affect the senses produced by the subjects in vulnerability conditions or privations generated in urban poverty, important to guide a review of the guidelines for the policies at hand.
exclusion processes; internationalization of the economy; public policies; vulnerabilities; privations