Family Ties and Urban-Rural Linkages among Older Migrants in Nairobi Informal Settlements
Family Ties and Urban-Rural Linkages among Older Migrants in Nairobi Informal Settlements
复制标题
内罗毕非正式住区老年移民的家庭关系和城乡联系
DOI：
10.1002/psp.1711
复制
发表时间：
2012
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Mberu B
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Mberu B
基于非洲移徙作为一种家庭生存战略;城乡联系对于移徙者继续与原籍社区接触至关重要;返回后重返社会;以及补充不稳定的城市收入的安全网;我们研究了生活在内罗毕非正规住区的1 693名老年移徙者的家庭关系在农村原籍联系中的作用。尽管贫民窟居住环境恶劣，但内罗毕贫民窟中80%的老年移民在一整年的观察中仍与他们的农村老家保持联系。与家庭有关的因素，特别是居住在农村的核心家庭成员，解释了45%的解释联系。宗教、种族、土地所有权以及目前的健康和经济状况是其他关键的预测因素。这种联系的模式和原因与移民对维持农村家庭的积极贡献是一致的。我们的发现很好地扎根于更大的大陆文献中，这些文献表明城市移民不是一个“被剥夺身份的个体”，而是农村起源集体的一部分。针对国家安全网系统的弱点，这项研究揭示了社会文化网络在人们日常生活中的持久重要性，特别是家庭关系对老年移民的重要性。60岁或以上的人健康状况不佳，以及长期居住在贫民窟，这些都是与农村出身的人保持联系的倾向较低的预测因素，也是社会参与减少的指标，在这种情况下，城市穷人的政策干预可能需要包括努力促进农村出身的老年人重新融入社会。版权所有© 2012约翰威利父子有限公司.
Building on African migration as a household survival strategy; urban–rural linkages as critical for migrants' continued engagement with origin communities; reintegration in case of return; and safety net for supplementing precarious urban incomes; we examine the role of family ties in rural origin linkages among 1,693 older migrants living in Nairobi informal settlements. Despite the grim of slum residence, 80% of older migrants in Nairobi slums maintained contact with their rural origin homes during a full year of observation. Family‐related factors, especially members of the nuclear family residing in rural origin, explained 45% of explained linkages. Religion, ethnicity, land ownership at origin, and current health and economic statuses are other key predictors. The patterns and reasons of linkages are consistent with migrants' positive contributions to the upkeep of rural origin households. Our findings are well‐anchored in the larger continental literature that has shown the urban migrant as not a ‘disembedded individual’ but instead part of rural origin collectives. Against the weakness of state safety net system, the study sheds crucial light on the enduring importance of sociocultural networks in people's everyday lives, particularly the importance of family ties for older migrants. To the extent that poor health status, being aged 60 years or older, and long duration of residence in the slums, which are predictors of low propensities to maintain contacts with rural origin, are also indicators of diminished social engagement, policy interventions among the urban poor may need to include efforts to enhance rural origin reintegration of the most‐aged individuals. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.