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Greiner, Clemens ORCID: 0000-0002-6771-373X (2011). MIGRATION, TRANSLOCAL NETWORKS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRATIFICATION IN NAMIBIA. Africa, 81 (4). S. 606 - 628. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1750-0184

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Abstract

Rural-urban migration and networks are fundamental for many livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Remittances in cash and kind provide additional income, enhance food security and offer access to viable resources in both rural and urban areas. Migration allows the involved households to benefit from price differences between rural and urban areas. In this contribution, I demonstrate that rural-urban networks not only contribute to poverty alleviation and security, but also further socio-economic stratification. This aspect has been ignored or neglected by most scholars and development planners. Using ethnographic data from Namibia, I have adopted a translocal perspective on migration and stratification, focusing on the resulting impact in rural areas where modern urban forms of stratification, induced by education and income from wage labour, are on the increase.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Greiner, Clemens UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-373X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-485769
DOI:	10.1017/S0001972011000477
Journal or Publication Title:	Africa
Volume:	81
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 606 - 628
Date:	2011
Publisher:	CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	CAMBRIDGE
ISSN:	1750-0184
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; LIVELIHOODS; INEQUALITY; APARTHEID; MIGRANTS; POVERTY; KENYA; WORLD Multiple languages Anthropology; Area Studies Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/48576