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Regional Associations: A Note on Opposed Interpretations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Ronald Skeldon
Ronald Skeldon
Affiliation:
Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research
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The role of regional associations in urbanization has been the subject of recent debate. From the study of clubs in Lima, Peru, Mangin( 1959) and Doughty (1969) conclude that their role is threefold: to act as a mechanism to integrate the rural migrant into the urban and potentially hostile environment, to act as an agent to promote home-town development, and to contribute to the social and political integration of the nation. The evidence discussed by Little (1973) from a number of African countries supports the first of these contentions. However, in an article in volume 17 of CSSH, Jongkind (1974), also using data from Lima, has strongly challenged these three supposed roles, finding that they cannot “survive the test of empirical criticism.” He argues that the regional associations are composed of elitist, well adjusted and successful migrants and that they are definitely urban institutions, not rural enclaves in the city as Mangin and Doughty have implied.

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Response and Review
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 506 - 510
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1977

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