Following the conflict involved in becoming independent, East Timor had no land registry and no process for squatters to be evicted. This created problems as people displaced by war returned to their homes to find them occupied by squatters, who in some cases had rented them out and wanted a monetary settlement before leaving. Land claims can be broken into four groups, namely those who currently possess land, those claiming land they owned under Portuguese rule, those claiming land they possessed under Indonesian rule and people asserting customary or traditional land rights. In 2006, conflict again broke out and 100,000 people were displaced; as had happened previously, when residents returned to their homes they found them squatted. Fiji Kiribati Informal settlements in Kiribati are known as squatter settlements, as in Fiji and Samoa. Unlike most Pacific Island countries, it is possible to sell or buy customary land in Kiribati. Zoning laws are not implemented by the government and not widely recognised by local people. On the island of Kiritimati, squatters live in both villages and on old Burns Philp copra plantations. Vanuatu See also Abandonment (legal) Claim club Homelessness Hunter-gatherer Right to housing Squatters union Treesitting Temporary use References Further reading Bailey, R. (1973) The Squatters Penguin: UK Bloomfield, F. A. (2021). Ethnography of the uses, practices, and socio-spatial interaction in okupa (squatted) spaces . Urbs: Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales, 11(1), 81–93. Corr, A. (1999) No Trespassing! Squatting, Rent Strikes and Land Struggles Worldwide South End Press ADILKNO (1994) Cracking The Movement – Amsterdam squatter history and the movement's relation to the media. Also available online Cracking The System (2008) – A zine about squats and social centres in Europe inspired by the april2008 initiative. Also available online. Curtis, H. & Sanderson, M. (2004) The Unsung Sixties Whiting & Birch Dobbz, H. (2013) Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States AK Press Katsiaficas, G. (1999) The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life Humanity Books Also available online Owens, L. (2009) Cracking the Movement: Narrating the Decline of the Amsterdam Squatters' Movement Schmid, L. (2014) Häuserkampf im Berlin der 1980er Jahre: Squatting in Berlin in the 1980s Squatting Europe Kollective (2013) Squatting Everywhere Kollective (2018) Fighting for spaces, Fighting for our lives: Squatting movements today Tobocman, S. (reissued 2016) War in the Neighborhood New York: Autonomedia –