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Title: | Patterns of residential mobility amongst children in Greater Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa: observations from the Birth to Twenty cohort |
Author: | Ginsburg, Carren |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 397-413 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | residential mobility children urban areas |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-009-9069-6 |
Abstract: | Frequent residential movement challenges children to adapt to change, amongst others, houses and neighbourhoods, friends and schools, and this may have either or both negative and positive influences on their health and well-being. However, there is currently little knowledge of the patterns of child residential mobility within South Africa's urban environment. This paper presents results from a 14-year longitudinal study of child residential movement in the Greater Johannesburg area, using data collected through the Birth to Twenty Research Programme (BT20). The paper analyses the frequencies and patterns of residential mobility observed over the first 14 years of the lives of children in BT20 cohort. Of the 3,273 children enrolled in the cohort in 1990, two thirds of the children have moved home at least once. Nonetheless, a third of the children have never moved, indicating some stability among the urban child population. Residential moves by children were found to be associated with both the lowest resourced and the highest resourced households. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |