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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field Date
- 1974-1977
- Coverage Date
- 1943-1979
- Coverage Place
- Iran
- Notes
- Farhad Kazemi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-176) and index
- LCCN
- 80023374
- LCSH
- Iranians/Rural-urban migration--Iran/Iran--Social conditions