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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 and grievances in the mobilization of the urban poor and urban studies perspectives on growing informal peripheries in the Third World. The chapter announces the main arguments of the book and explains the methods and the outline to be followed. It tells us that from a social movement/contentious politics perspective; the book challenges the assumption that socioeconomic factors such as poverty were the only causes triggering land squatting. On the contrary, it argues that political factors, such as democratization (political opening first and electoral competition later) interacted with grievances such as housing needs affecting the number of land invasions and the types of squatter mobilization strategies in Montevideo at different points in time. It also highlights the role of brokerage connecting the underprivileged with resources including political opportunities.
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Álvarez-Rivadulla, M.J. (2017). Introduction. In: Squatters and the Politics of Marginality in Uruguay. Latin American Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54534-9_1
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