Generating vulnerability to floods: Poor urban migrants and the state in Metro Manila, Philippines

• Main Authors: Sajor, Edsel E., Resurrección, Bernadette P., Macagba, Sharon Feliza Ann P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Rural-urban migration > Philippines > Malabon City; Floods > Philippines > Malabon City; Poor > Philippines > Malabon City; Place and Environment; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4242
• Institution: De La Salle University

This chapter examines internal migration in Malabon City, part of the Metro Manila mega-urban region in the Philippines, where low-income migrants occupy risky flood-prone areas. It explores factors underlying settlement in obviously high-risk areas and the resource structure that constrains the urb...