State officials objected to both land sales and squatting as development strategies because they believed that such activities led to land fragmentation and degradation.
The politics of purchase area farmers intersected with national politics in important ways that promoted both land sales and squatting.
However, squatting, leg-muscle pumping (tip-toeing), abdominal contractions and bending forwards may be less acceptable to older patients with gait imbalance.
These manoeuvres include squatting, isometric thigh contraction, leg crossing, raised toe walking and abdominal muscle contraction carried out before or immediately after posture change.
The squatting literature typically focuses on urban areas.
To be sure, immigrants would have preferred to have their own plots, but squatting did allow families some independence.
Although the government had a time-honored policy against squatting, it was clearly unenforceable.
Squatting families were only a fraction of the families moving in search of land during the mid-1940s and 1950s.
