Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 366)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 366)

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I. SQUATTING
Historical and contemporary analysis adequately acquaints us
with the forms of land seizure engaged in by colonial and
settler colonial regimes. (1) Often in the context of
colonialism we will find informal processes of redemption and
reclamation being undertaken by the dispossessed, the
homeless and the landless. One of the means this can take is
squatting, through which the homeless and the _ landless
undertake to occupy land illegally in order to farm it or to
construct housing shelter upon it. As Charles Abrams argues:
Unlike other forms of conquest that were propelled
by the pursuit of glory, trade routes, or revenues,
squatting is part of the desperate contest for
shelter and land. Of all forms of illegal seizure,
squatting is the most condonable. (2)
Squatting may be precipitated by many factors. In an urban
context it may be caused through forced migration of refugees
due to fear and intimidation. (3) This is the form of
squatting settlement most Palestinians became familiar with
as the refugee camps spread throughout Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
and the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
after 1948. (4) Other reasons for the creation of urban
squatments are rural depression and the quest for subsistence
in burgeoning urban industrial and commercial centres where
people live and work on the informal and marginal pole of the
urban economy, perhaps seeking social and economic mobility
into the formal sectors of the economy. This process is
normally accompanied by the complementary processes of
proletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation. (5) In the
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