The new urban's new poor: Street waste pickers

Less developed countries have fulfilled their process of urbanization within a couple of decades after World War II while developed West countries fulfill this process within 150 years. Migration from rural to urban areas in Turkey, as a less developed country, has begun after 1950s and lasted rapidly until current days. The key reason of that Turkey has got through the first period of the urbanization process experienced in final ten years without having any crucial problems is the formal relationships existing in urban areas. The people who migrated to urban could find both a home to settle down and a work to labor in a short time through these relations. And this has been ensuring that the one migrating to urban could adapt to city. However, the informal relations consisting of acquaintances and relatives in urban areas had changed dramatically along with the new term after 1980s ? enforcement of liberal economical politics and purification of social states after economical crisis in both whole world and Turkey in 1970s - . Relationships with acquaintances and relatives in today?s urban areas, now, provide the possibility of surviving for those migrating to urban.Urban areas have changed along with the altering economical and social politics. The most disadvantaged group influenced by the changes in urban areas is the new poor groups of urban who are looking for a work in order to survive and are far from all of the secure works in urban areas. ?Street waste pickers?, in this context, is one of the new strategies that new poor groups of urban have found in order to survive.