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Author: P. C. Kok
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780796920041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular belief is that urbanisation has increased substantially in the new South Africa, when, in fact, patterns of internal migration have remained static since the late 1970s.
Author: Richard Tomlinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1351232053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1990, Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa examines the democratic future of South Africa in the context of policy options and constraints. The book looks at the issue of South Africa’s future including access to land and housing, marked regional differences in well-being, large peri-urban settlements arising around all major towns, and racial inequalities in access to farming land. The book will be of interest to students of urbanization, geography, economics and planning and African studies.
Author: Jan David Bakker
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization across the continent. The paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass laws, to explore how exogenous population shocks affect the spatial distribution of economic activity. Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given a migration cost in distance, a town nearer to the homelands will receive a larger inflow of people than a more distant town following the removal of mobility restrictions. Drawing upon this exogenous variation, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no endogenous adjustment of population location to a positive population shock, there is heterogeneity in these results. Cities that start off larger do grow endogenously in the wake of a migration shock, while rural areas that start off small do not respond in the same way. This heterogeneity indicates that population shocks lead to an increase in urban relative to rural populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run.
Author: Rebekah Lee
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780755618927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this compelling study, Rebekah Lee explores the process and consequences of settlement through the everyday lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods. How did African women experience apartheid? How did they create a sense of belonging in a city that actively denied and resisted their presence? Through detailed analyses of women's management of domestic economies, their participation in township social organizations, their home renovation priorities and patterns of energy use, this study evokes a larger history of gendered and generational struggles over identity, place and belonging. It provides a deeper and more nuanced understanding of African women in apartheid and post-apartheid society, and of urbanization in South Africa. Drawing together scholarship and new methodologies from anthropology, history, human geography and development studies, "African Women and Apartheid" will be valuable to anyone with interests in South Africa, gender, urbanization, the African family, oral history and memory."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Author: Pieter Kok (Zuid-Afrika.)
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780796921130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers three broad areas: macro-level migration trends in sub-Saharan Africa; micro-level factors in South African migration; and a synthesis of current migration theory.
Author: David M. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1134902972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.
Author: Jan David Bakker
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Published: 2016
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Lemon
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 3030730735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.
Author: Derik Gelderblom
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780796916280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Volume 1 of this two-volume publication, the authors review the international literature on urbanisation.
Author: Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 3319592351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa. It examines both the historical roots of and contemporary challenges regarding the social, economic, and geo-political causes of migration and its consequences (i.e. xenophobia) to illustrate how ‘diaspora’ migrations have shaped a sense of identity, citizenry, and belonging in the region. By discussing immigration policies and processes and highlighting how the struggle for belonging is mediated by new pressures concerning economic security, social inequality, and globalist challenges, the book develops policy responses to the challenge of social and economic exclusion, as well as xenophobic violence, in Southern Africa. This timely and highly informative book will appeal to all scholars, activists, and policy-makers looking to revisit migration policies and realign them with current globalization and regional integration trends.
