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Title: | Rural-Urban Linkages in Contemporary Harare: Why Migrants Need Their Land |
Authors: | Potts, Deborah Mutambirwa, Chris |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 677-698 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | rural-urban relations urbanization land law Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637042 |
Abstract: | Until independence in 1980, rural-urban migration in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was influenced by a variety of legal restrictions, favouring the employment of 'single' migrants. Once restrictions were lifted it was to be expected that migration patterns would alter. Surveys carried out in 1985 and 1988 among migrants in Harare's high-density areas, and addressing the issues of household characteristics, mobility patterns, land and production patterns, and future residence plans of migrants, found that many changes had occurred. In particular, there had been a shift towards longer-term migration. Nevertheless, a strong perception still existed among migrants that maintenance of rural links was essential as economic security. Therefore, pressure by the government of Zimbabwe to divorce urban migrants from their rural land rights, in order to alleviate land shortages in the African communal lands, should be resisted since welfare and pension provision is still minimal. Notes, ref., sum. |