While there have been incidents of overt resistance also in Bagong Silang (Palatino 2019), outright opposition has frequently been the domain of human rights organizations, the Catholic church, and some

Foreword Vicente L. Rafael Set in the sprawling barangay of Bagong Silang in Metro Manila, Steffen Jensen and Karl Hapal’s research for their book began several years ago, prior to the onset of the COVID-19