Urban 'slums' and social mobility
SOURCE: Development Policy Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Turok, J.Budlender, J.Visagie
KEYWORDS: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, POVERTY, QUALITY OF LIFE, URBAN COMMUNITIES
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10407
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/12287
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12287
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Turok, J.Budlender, J.Visagie
KEYWORDS: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, POVERTY, QUALITY OF LIFE, URBAN COMMUNITIES
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10407
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/12287
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12287
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Abstract
Informal urban settlements determine the well-being of a large section of global humanity. Yet there has been little research on their role in facilitating social mobility. In theory such settlements may foster human progress by linking rural-urban migrants to the services, contacts and livelihoods concentrated in cities. The article uses longitudinal data for South Africa to explore the magnitude of social progression among people living within informal settlements compared with rural areas and formal urban areas. It finds that there may be some advantage from living in an informal settlement compared with a rural area, but the effect is not strong. The impact may be larger in the more prosperous Gauteng city-region than in other urban regions.-
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