Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: This article was motivated by a claim in literature that migrants are ruralising Third World cities. It \ninvestigates the impacts of migration - the fact that all residents are from somewhere else - on the \nform and function of an informal settlement, using an illegal shantytown in Mamelodi, Tshwane, as a \ncase study, by exploring the relationships between (1) the demographic profiles of migrant households, \nincluding their origins and expectations, (2) the form of a squatter settlement, and (3) how it actually \nfunctions as a setting for social and economic activities. Illegal settlement making is finally tentatively \nexplained with a theory developed from the ruralisation hypothesis.
Author: Gerald Steyn
Institution: Tshwane University of Technology
Language: Afrikaans
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W294553141