Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ287490
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Publication Date: 1983
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The Ghettoization of an Island Paradise.
Eyre, L. Alan
Journal of Geography, v82 n5 p236-39 Sep-Oct 1983
Jamaica experienced organized violence from 1976 to 1980, when general elections were held. Describes field work carried out in ghettos and shanty towns which mapped the rigid geographical polarization of Jamaica and its effects on employment, education, and migration. The geographic framework for a resumption of hostilities remains. (CS)
Descriptors: Conflict, Developing Nations, Field Studies, Foreign Countries, Ghettos, Housing, Human Geography, Poverty, Slums, Social Discrimination, Urban Problems
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Jamaica
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