The posseiros' resistance in the region of the Greater Carajas Program (Brazil) / Jean Hébette -- River impoundment related population displacement in Brazilian Amazonia : the Tucuruí Resettlement Program (TRP), 1976-'84 / Luc J.A. Mougeot -- Conflicts of interests and regional development in colonizing the Brazilian Amazon : the case of Rondonia / Gerd Kohlhepp and Martin Coy -- The housing of the poor in urban Latin America : competition for space in La Paz, Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua / Paul van Lindert and Otto Verkoren -- The competition for urban space in Belem, Brazil / Auriléa Abelém -- Party political violence and the struggle for residential space in Jamaica / L. Alan Eyre -- The impact of socio-political structures on intra-urban migration of low-income groups and the peripheral growth of Latin American metropolitan areas (including examples from Lima and Santiago de Chile) / Jürgen Bähr -- Urban survival strategies and infant mortality in Paramaribo, Suriname / Humphrey E. Lamur