Book
Poverty and revolution in Iran: the migrant poor, urban marginality and politics
New York University Press • New York • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Kazemi, Farhad.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an analysis of the migrant poor and their degree of participation in the Iranian Revolution. Kazemi examines in detail the origins and conditions of the migrant poor, distinguishing between squatters, non-squatters, the underemployed and regularly employed. He first examines the theories of dependency, marginality and migration, and their relevance to the Iranian experience. He refutes a direct link between marginality and dependent capitalism, and marginality and alienation. He examines the history of urbanism and migration in Iran, noting in particular the the failure of land reform and the oil boom economy. He also looks at the residential patterns of squatter settlement in the city, socioeconomic data-- especially in regard to employment and housing-- and forms of group association and political participation. Finally he discusses the degree to which the urban migrant poor participated in the revolution, and were successfully recruited by the secular and religious revolutionary movements. According to Kazemi, the urban migrant poor were not coopted by movement leaders, but acted out of their own needs and aspirations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Poverty
- Revolution
- Urban and rural life
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1943-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Farhad Kazemi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-176) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80023374
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians/Rural-urban migration--Iran/Iran--Social conditions