Unemployment in the urban areas is relatively high because people from the rural areas believe that urban areas, especially the Metropolitan Manila, have a lot of job offers for them. People from provinces usually go to ...

Near the vicinity of big market places in Quezon City and the infamous Payatas dumpsite is a makeshift plastic recycling center called “Plastikan”. The recycling area, built and maintained by the residents and workers of ...

Through the years, the intensifying practice of contracting and subcontracting has been observed along with the decreasing trend in labor unionizing. As several studies and practical experiences in the past have shown the ...

This case study presents the context of religious role in social movement and how the Church affects and influences people to mobilize. I used Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration to explain further the relationship ...

Resistance from the Periphery delves into the social, political and economic interactions of the residents of an informal settlement that have been suffering from constant threat of eviction and demolition. The exploration ...

This study entitled “A House but not a Home: The Effect of Relocation on the Urban Poor’s Standard of Living and Access to the Basic Social Services”, disclosed the effect of relocation on the lives of the urban poor ...

Makati Homeville, popularly known as “Binay Compound”, is a resettlement project of the city government of Makati for the informal settler families living in “high risk” and government owned areas in Makati. Informal ...

This study ruminates on the influence of Philippine local government units (from barangays, organizing committees, to towns and municipalities) on people’s perception of sexual liberation and gender emancipation, specifically ...

his study is a qualitative inquiry into the acquisition of "death rights" by families of Filipino migrant workers who died in the Middle East due to "human-induced reasons" under the influence of the Kafala sponsorship ...

Can we build more than paper towns? Resettlement is more than just the transferring a community from one place to another. It is the uprooting and re-rooting of individual lives –the reconfiguring of community living.The ...