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Title: | Rural-urban migration and urban poverty in Imizamoyethu, Hout Bay, Cape Town: application of the Steinbrink's translocal analytical model |
Author: | Marindo, Ravayi |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | African Population Studies |
Volume: | 23 |
Pages: | 199-217 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | rural-urban migration informal settlements urban poverty demographic research |
Abstract: | Traditional demographic approaches applied in the study of rural to urban migration have tended to privilege measurement of volume and direction rather than providing explanatory models that are rooted in theory. This paper goes beyond quantification and suggests a model that incorporates the sociospatial nature of rural to urban migration with a sociocultural poverty dynamic. Using data from an informal settlement in Hout Bay, Cape Town (South Africa), the paper highlights the challenges that are faced in finding a model that satisfies both a social analysis of rural to urban migration and the demographic quantification of both poverty and migration. M. Steinbrink's 2007 translocal analytical model provides a holistic explanation of the dynamism and meaning of migration and moves the debate from the dichotomy of the rural and the urban to translocal social spaces. However, there are various challenges to its application from a demographic perspective, including the lack of physical location of the translocal space and the fact that the rural and the urban as physical spaces are not the focus of analysis. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited] |