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Title:Migration and Inequality in South Africa: Unraveling One Thread of a Complex Web
Author:Gelderblom, DerikISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Africanus
Volume:36
Issue:2
Pages:189-201
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:migration
inequality
Urbanization and Migration
Abstract:This article investigates how migration is reinforcing and changing previously existing inequalities in South Africa. It argues that migration reproduces three dimensions of inequality: regionaly inequality, inequality between migrant households and non-migrant households, and inequality between migrant and non-migrant individuals. The article begins with an outline of the direct and indirect mechanisms by which migration can have an effect on inequality. The aim is to build a model of the causal mechanisms involved, as well as to specify the variables affecting the intensity of the effects. The article further examines the available evidence on the composition of migration streams in the South African case and considers the methodological difficulties inherent in making deductions based upon indirect indicators. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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