Which of the following factors best explains the development and expansion of squatter settlements?

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Urbanization in the Caribbean and Trends of Global Convergence-Divergence

The Geographical Journal

Vol. 159, No. 1 (Mar., 1993)

, pp. 1-21 (21 pages)

Published By: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

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Abstract

Data show that the Caribbean region is considerably more highly urbanized than the world taken as a whole. This is so despite the fact that urban centres in the region were originally established and maintained as points of administrative and commercial control, and thereby had more to do with plantation agriculture than manufacturing. Summarizing the development of highly polarized patterns of urban settlement during the mercantile and colonial eras, it is demonstrated that contemporary Caribbean urbanization can only be understood in terms of the joint processes of global convergence-divergence. Convergence represents the universal adoption of Western norms of consumption, whilst divergence connotes increasingly varied production possibilities between nations owing to the International Division of Labour. However, it is shown that owing to the differential processes of conservation and dissolution of traditional pre-capitalist forms, convergence on Western patterns of consumption impacts upon different social groups within the Caribbean region in a highly unequal manner.

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Sociohistorical Factors and the Growth of Squatter Settlements: Mindanao, Philippines, 1950-1972

Urban Anthropology

Vol. 8, No. 1 (SPRING 1979)

, pp. 049-072 (24 pages)

Published By: The Institute, Inc.

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Abstract

Squatter populations in urban centers in the developing world are increasing at double the increase rate of the cities themselves. The enormity of the problem is evidenced in the third largest urban complex of the Philippine Islands, Davao City, in which today approximately one-quarter of the population is in the squatter category. The present study is an attempt to provide a a detailed description and analysis of the sociohistorical factors that led up to the present situation. Although much research undertaken at this time investigates squatter settlements as these currently exist, little attention is generally given to detailed investigation of the sociohistorical factors that led up to the inception of particular squatter settlements. Adequate cross-cultural generalizations about the squatter phenomenon cannot proceed satisfactorily until the historical conditions associated with it are explored in more detail.In addition to microlevel historical analyses of single squatter settlement development (or of all such settlements in a single city) and macrolevel analysis of national and international conditions leading to the development of such enclaves, attention should be focused on regional sociohistorical data. This paper focuses on regional factors on the island of Mindanao, which provided the context for the proliferation of squatter settlements in Davao City following World War II.

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Jack R. Rollwagen, Ph. D. is the president of The Institute, Inc., a closely-held corporation in western New York State. Dr. Rollwagen founded the journal with the title Urban Anthropology in 1972 and has been the editor of that journal since that time. Dr. Rollwagen is a cultural anthropologist with interests in urban anthropology, visual anthropology, and World System analysis. His most recent research has been a holistic ethnomusicological approach to the music of the Horqin Mongols of eastern Inner Mongolia, China. This research has resulted in the publication of a six volume DVD set titled Song Of The Grasslands: Ethnicity, Identity, Economic Development, Culture Change And Music Among The Horqin Mongols of Eastern Inner Mongolia, China. He is also editing a multi-volume DVD set titled Life in an American Village. Dr. Rollwagen is the editor of two books on visual anthropology.  

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