Latin American UrbanizationOriginally published in 1981 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, Latin American Urbanization presents an in-depth look at a process of social change in an important region of the Third World. In this study, Professors Butterworth and Chance concentrate on the rural-urban migration of the lower classes and the adaptation of migrants to city life. They examine the rural, peasant and proletarian communities from which the migrants have come and to which they often remain loyal even after many years of urban residence. Drawing together in a coherent manner studies from several disciplines such as demographic, sociocultural, economic and political dimensions of urbanization, this book will interest a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. |
Contents
The city in history | 1 |
The growth of cities | 31 |
selectivity and migration | 51 |
Return migration brokerage and effects on the community | 73 |
The effects of outmigration on community of origin | 81 |
kinship networks and small groups | 91 |
The urban class structure | 108 |
Voluntary associations | 136 |
Housing poverty and politics | 147 |
International migration | 168 |
Conclusion | 198 |
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agricultural Argentina Balán barriadas barrios Bogotá border bracero program Brazil Butterworth capital century Chile Colombia colonial Cornelius 1978 countries creole cultural differential economic elite employment ethnic factors favelas Grebler groups growth Guatemala illegal immigration important increased Indian individuals industrial internal migration kinship labor land Latin America Latin American cities Latin American urban Lima living Mangin Mesoamerica mestizo Mexican Mexico City middle class Migración Mixtec Monterrey move movement mulattoes networks Oaxaca occupational organization out-migration pattern peasant percent permanent Peru place of origin political Popayán population poverty prestige problems racial region relations relationships residence return migration role rural areas rural-urban Santiago São Paulo sector shantytowns social mobility society socioeconomic Spanish squatter settlements status stratification structure studies Teotihuacán Tilantongo tion towns Tulcán Tzintzuntzan United upper class urban centers urban social village voluntary associations women workers