TY - JOUR
AU - Koo, Hagen
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 401 have so stimulated human migration that one is to describe and analyze the nature and McNeill questions whether "intelligent structure of urban poverty, and the other is management and deliberate policy will be to examine the patterns of political partici­ able to alleviate" the resulting problems. pation by the urban poor. Since so many of Other essayists write on a less grand scale the urban poor in developing nations are as they investigate, for example, migration migrants from rural areas, a substantial in Chinese history, in Europe following portion of the book reviews the empirical World War II, in the Caribbean, the Soviet literature on cityward migration and rural Union and Arab world. Political scientist migrants' adaptation to the urban structure. Aristide Zolberg offers an interpretation of The author reviews her own research in international migration policies for three Latin America and hundreds of other case studies conducted in Asia and Africa in periods from the sixteenth century to the order to develop not a grand theory but what recent past. Other contributions to the vol­ she regards "middle-level generalizations". ume analyze demographic, economic, legal, In this effort, the author displays a remark­ moral and cultural 
TI - Book Review: Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations
JF - International Migration Review
DO - 10.1177/0197918381015001-235
DA - 1981-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-access-to-power-politics-and-the-urban-poor-in-developing-BYX9jnB05R
SP - 401
EP - 402
VL - 15
IS - 1-2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -