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Politics and Latin America's Urban Poor: Reflections from a Lima Shantytown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Susan C. Stokes
Susan C. Stokes*
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University of Chicago
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In the early 1970s, Wayne Cornelius asked, “Are the migrant masses revolutionary? Definitely not, at least in Latin America and many other parts of the developing world.” These words summarized an emerging revisionist view of the political character of Latin America's new urban poor. Careful empirical research had proved wrong previous scholars and observers who had expected the new migrant populations in Latin America's cities to become sources of support for revolutionary political movements. A new picture of the inhabitants of Latin America's burgeoning shantytowns came into focus, showing these populations to be either passive or loyally engaged in the surrounding political system. According to this picture, squatters held considerable hope for individual advancement, forged clientelistic ties with government officials, and showed few signs of joining radicalized, class-conscious social movements.

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Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 1991 , pp. 75 - 101
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Copyright © 1991 by the University of Texas Press

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The research for this article was supported by a Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. The author would like to thank Barry Ames, James Caporaso, and LAR's anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft.

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