If one would wish to single out, among the many interrelated processes of social,
economic and cultural transformation in the Third World, one factor as the most central,
the migration of increasing numbers of people from villages and towns to large urban
centres would be a likely candidate. Almost all other important processes of change are
directly related to this rural-to-urban migration, some of them primarily as causes or
contributing factors (population growth, modernization of agriculture and the
accompanying economic polarization), others mainly as effects (the growth of urban
slums, the rapid expansion of an “informal sector” in the economy, mass political
participation and the emergence of new types of political movements)
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