Today for the first time in history, over 1.15 billion people live in urban slums. Of these, 581 million live in Asia, 120 million in Latin America, and 199 million in sub-Saharan Africa (UN-HABITAT 2010). Over 90% of the urban slum dwellers live in the cities of low income coun…
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The neoliberal era has witnessed rapid and fundamental transformations in criminal justice institutions, expanding their role around the globe as charted by a variety of scholars. This dissertation takes up the case of Turkey, where a new neoliberal- politics of crime has been s…
This dissertation focuses on low-income rural-urban migrant children and their families in Bangladesh, living in a severe poverty-stricken environment in the capital city, Dhaka. Specifically, it deals with the dilemma of so-called non-formal primary education (NFPE) programs ai…
The post World War II era produced massive population migration from rural to urban areas in developing nations. While many studies have undertaken analyses of the large-scale social, economic, and political problems resulting from this rapid urbanization, few have examined the …
This study describes the Church's Kingdom mission through power ministries among the urban poor people in Lupang Pangako, Metro Manila. The urban poor are one of the largest target populations of today's mission. Mission focused on the urban poor should be understood biblically,…
Citizen political participation is central to the quality of government. The participatory strategies of citizens vary depending on the kind of political system they live in. In this study, I analyze the effect of different political characteristics on the strategies that the ur…