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Migration and Urbanization: Breaking New Ground

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URBAN POVERTY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF COSTA RICA. By HERRICKBRUCE and hudsonbarclay. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. 188. $22.50.)

A HOUSE OF MY OWN: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS OF LIMA, PERU. By LOBOSUSAN. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982. Pp. 190. $18.50 cloth, $7.95 paper.)

TOWARD A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF URBANIZATION IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. Edited by SAFAHELEN I. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 315. $9.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Judith Adler Hellman*
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
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Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. Joan M. Nelson, Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Countries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), 3.

2. See especially Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sanchez (New York: Vintage, 1961); Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1959); and La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York (New York: Random House, 1966). In this regard, it is also interesting to see the firsthand account of interpersonal relations in a Brazilian favela, which sometimes varied from quarrelsome to violent. Carolina María de Jesús, Child of the Dark (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1962).

3. Lewis's hypotheses are set out most clearly in the introduction to La Vida, xlii-lii, and in “The Culture of Poverty,” Scientific American 215 (1966):19-25.

4. Compare The Culture of Poverty: A Critique, edited by Eleanor Burke Leacock (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971); Charles Valentine, Culture and Poverty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), and Valentine et al., “Culture and Poverty: A Critique and Counterproposals,” Current Anthropology 10 (1969):181-201; Janice Perlman, The Myth of Marginality (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976); and Helen I. Safa, The Urban Poor of Puerto Rico: A Study in Development and Inequality (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974).