Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Migration is the (usually free) movement of individuals from one place to
another. Migration is formally conceptualized as the movement of households
from relatively poorer regions - the sending areas -- to relatively better-off
regions -- the receiving areas -- thereby enhancing the households' chances of
improved access to resources. The migrant can be defined as a person that has
gone out of his/her own free will from one place to another. In this sample and
study, a distinction will be made between household heads born in the CMA,
household heads that arrived before 1994, and household heads that arrived in
the CMA in 1994 and thereafter. These migrants will be called "Household Head
Born CMA", "Household Head older migrants", and "Household Head recent
migrants" respectively.
Informal squatter settlements are mushrooming at the outskirts of the CMA and
very little is known about the motivation of migrants to leave their rural areas. In
explaining the occurrence of migration and of why people migrate, one has to
consider the push-pull theory. In the sending areas there are certain push
factors, pushing the migrant out of the area. In the receiving area, there are pull
factors, pulling the migrant towards the area. Migrants are also not a random
selection of people. They have specific traits and differ from non-migrants in
certain respects (age, life-cycle stage, marital status, education, occupation and
status, cultural attributes and traditionalist vs. innovator). It was found in this
study that the CMA as opposed to the Eastern Cape has certain differences,
thereby pulling and pushing the migrant into and out of the areas respectively.
Also, migrants seem to have different characteristics than that of the nonmigrant. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Swart In-Migrasie vanaf die Oos Kaap tot die Kaapse Metropolitaanse Area
(KMA):
Profiel van die Migrant en Migrasie Redes
Oorsig
Migrasie is die (gewoonlik vrye) beweging van indiwidue van een plek na 'n
ander. Migrasie word formeel gedefinieer as die beweging van huishoudings
vanaf afsend-areas tot ontvangs-areas. Die huishouding se kanse op beter
toegang tot hulpbronne word verbeter. 'n Migrant is 'n persoon wat uit vrye wil
van een area na die volgende trek. Onderskeid word gemaak tussen die
huishouding-hoof wat gebore is in die KMA, die huishouding-hoof wat die KMA
binne-getrek het voor 1994, en die huishouding-hoof wat die KMA binnegetrek
het tydens 1994 en daarna.
Informele nedersettings, oftewel plakkerskampe, is besig om vinnig toe te neem
aan die buitwyke van die KMA en baie min inligting is beskikbaar oor wat
potensiële migrante motiveer om die landelike gebiede te verlaat. Wanneer
daar na die beweegredes gekyk word, is dit noodsaaklik om die "stoot en trek"
teorie te oorweeg as 'n moontlike verduideliking. Migrante is ook nie 'n lukrake
versameling van mense nie. Hulle het baie spesifieke eienskappe wat verskil
van nie-migrante In sekere opsigte (ouderdom, lewens-siklus fase,
huwelikstatus, opvoeding, beroep en status, kulturele eienskappe en so meer).
In hierdie studie is gevind dat die Ooskaap en die KMA so verskil dat migrante
na die KMA aangetrek word.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/52720 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Britz, Andre Alfrieda |
| Contributors | Bekker, S. B., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 135 p. : ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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