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María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
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College integration and social class
What is the impact of social class on college integration? Higher education institutions are becoming more diverse, yet the integration of underprivileged students remains a challenge. Using a social network a...
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Conclusion
This concluding chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book, therefore insisting on the interactive relationship between grievances and political opportunities to produce mobilization, focusing on squatt...
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The Case of Montevideo
This chapter introduces us to the Uruguayan case, focusing on its party-centered and state-centered features and describes some of the main structural changes which have taken place in the last century such as...
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Accretion Invasions. A Story of an Unlikely Contention (1979–1990)
This chapter tells the story of the unlikely mobilization of the poorest of the poor toward the end of dictatorship. It relies mainly on the historical press data and other primary and secondary sources. While...
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Politics on the Ground
This chapter is deeply ethnographic in the sense that it tries to take the reader to the study setting, by choosing a story of a planned land invasion and by scrutinizing the relationship between squatters and...
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Introduction
This first introductory chapter briefly tells the history of the informal city in Montevideo, including its two waves of mobilization, and puts it into dialog with broader debates such as the role of politics ...
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The Cycle of Land Invasions
This chapter describes the cycle of land squatting in Montevideo from its beginnings in the late 1940s until the end of the study period in 2011. It shows that until the late 1980s, squatter settlements were r...
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Planned Squatting and Politics
This chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the peak in planned land invasions, which happened around 1990. Although deeply based on the quantitative analysis of the time series of land invasions, available i...
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Squatters and Politics in Montevideo at the Turn of the Century
This chapter analyzes the history of the informal city in Montevideo from a social movement perspective. It argues that, like other more structured social movements in the region, squatters were affected by ne...
