Migration and Urban Living in Less Developed Countries

作者: A. Datta

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00037-0

关键词: Structural adjustmentPopulationDevelopment economicsContext (language use)GeographyDeveloping countryDeveloped countryEconomic growthGlobalizationRural povertyUrbanization

摘要: Housing is considered a basic human right. In the context of less developed countries, migration has predominantly meant movement rural landless farmers into urban centres for employment. This type leads to an increased focus on informal housing in cities countries. Many scholars have suggested that processes are results urbanisation, use structural adjustment policies, and devastating agricultural policies led poverty across Recently, however, there been other forms undertaken by very different social groups, which produced patterns these The increase globalisation countries world increasing middle upper-middle classes leading desires can provide lifestyles similar West. As nation-states adopting increasingly neoliberal attitudes towards market economies, with simultaneous construction high-speed automobile networks connecting spaces, large numbers middle-class population migrating suburban or locations as ways escaping ‘dirt pollution’ While not from American suburbanisation, this process shaped through spatial aesthetic references therefore related processes, recent decades seen tremendous transformations variations worldwide.

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