The migrant nation
Urbanisation in Peru has brought citizenship but also a host of problems
IT WAS a slim volume, just 108 pages, and its title was hardly one to quicken pulses. Nevertheless Desborde Popular y Crisis del Estado (“Popular Overspill and Crisis of the State”) quickly became a bestseller in Peru after its publication in 1984. That was because the author, José Matos Mar, an anthropologist who died this month aged 93, had put his finger on a far-reaching social revolution which continues to reshape his country and has echoes across Latin America.
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