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Title:Urbanization and Adaptation: A Reorganization Process of Social Relations among the Maragoli Migrants in Their Urban Colony, Kangemi, Nairobi, Kenya
Author:Matsuda, Motoji
Year:1984
Periodical:African Study Monographs
Volume:5
Pages:1-48
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:Avalogoli
urbanization
migrants
Urbanization and Migration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/ASM%20%20Vol.5%201984/Motoji%20MATSUDA.pdf
Abstract:The retribalization phenomenon prevails in most of the larger African cities today. Though many urban migrants do not seem to break away 'tribal' social relations in town, retribalization itself can be regarded as a purely contemporary, dynamic and urban phenomenon in spite of its appearance. Among the Maragoli migrants from Western Kenya living in Kangemi, a poor housing area in Nairobi, the retribalization phenomenon appeared as nothing less than a mechanism for survival on the extreme edge of subsistence in a severe urban environment. In order to elucidate this phenomenon, 1) eight urban situations, where social relations are developed and organized, are chosen from the daily life of the Maragoli migrants in Kangemi; 2) the forms of reorganizing social relations (network/group type) are examined in each situation; 3) the forms of reorganizing them (clan-lineage/village-homeboy/urban neighbourhood-locality principle) are verified in each situation. Finally the author analyses how the village-homeboy principle, which has been rapidly developed in town, is embedded and reinterpreted in a traditional and dominant ideology of unilineal descent. - Abstr., fig., notes, ref., tab.
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