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'Forced' evictions eat away at a Manila community as developer spares the golf course next door

  • Written by Redento B. Recio, Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne
imageOne of the entry points to San Roque, with a makeshift guard shelter on the left. Kim Dovey, Author provided

– Ricky sits at one of half-a-dozen entrances to the San Roque settlement in Metro Manila’s North Triangle district. Ricky (not his real name) is part of a large team that guards the settlement 24 hours a day with two specific...

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