Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg: Differential Advantages and Unexpected Outcomes among Foreign-Born Migrants, Internal Migrants, and Long-Term South African Residents
Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg: Differential Advantages and Unexpected Outcomes among Foreign-Born Migrants, Internal Migrants, and Long-Term South African Residents
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DOI：
10.1111/imre.12076
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发表时间：
2014-03-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Vearey, Jo
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作者：
Myroniuk, Tyler W.;Vearey, Jo
在外国出生的移民----很少与国内移民和长期居民相比----往往是南非城市人口中处境最不利的群体。我们使用2008年在约翰内斯堡进行的横断面家庭调查的数据来比较外国出生的移民，内部移民和长期南非居民之间的社会资本和生计优势的上下文相关的措施。我们的研究结果是违反直觉的，并强调有必要探索城市移民人口的异质性，以及他们改善生活的机制，通过显示（1）外国出生的移民有更好的城市生活结果，（2）社会资本指标不一定与改善的生活结果相关。
Foreign-born migrants - a group rarely compared with both internal migrants and long-term residents - are often positioned as the most disadvantaged South African urban population. We use data from a 2008 cross-sectional household survey conducted in Johannesburg to compare a contextually relevant measure of social capital and livelihood advantages between foreign-born migrants, internal migrants, and long-term South African residents. Our findings are counterintuitive and emphasize the need to explore the heterogeneity of urban migrant populations, and the mechanisms in which they better their lives, by showing that (1) foreign-born migrants have better urban livelihood outcomes, and (2) indicators of social capital are not necessarily associated with improved livelihood outcomes.