Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg: Differential Advantages and Unexpected Outcomes among Foreign-Born Migrants, Internal Migrants, and Long-Term South African Residents

Myroniuk, Tyler W.; Vearey, Jo

doi:10.1111/imre.12076

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“…This finding concurs with the findings by Valentina et al (2010), showing that refugees and asylum-seekers generally have positive expectations about their future well-being. Furthermore, Myroniuk and Vearey (2014), in their research specific to Johannesburg, found that foreign-born migrants' livelihood outcomes compared well to those of South African citizens.…”

Section: The Derived Expected Well-being Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum-seekers in Johannesburg

Greyling

2016

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The influx of asylum-seekers and refugees from across Africa into democratic South Africa has increased significantly. The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that influences the expect well-being of this unique group. Expected well-being is an important determinant of both the decision to migrate and the choice of a country of destination. Knowledge about this determinant therefore informs refugee policies. The results show that only a few of the factors found in the literature explaining the expected well-being of voluntary migrants also explain the expected well-being of forced migrants. However, a number of factors found in the literature that explain the subjective well-being and well-being in general of refugees and asylum-seekers also went towards explaining the expected well-being of this group. These factors include: government assistance, culture, the time spent in South Africa, economic factors, crime, refugee status, reasons for leaving the home countries and the number of people staying in a house in the receiving country. The findings of this study emphasise the differences between forced and voluntary migrants and highlight the factors that influence the expected well-being of forced migrants. These in turn shed light on migration decisions and the choice of destination countries.

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Section: The Derived Expected Well-being Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum-seekers in Johannesburg

Greyling

2016

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“…Income is one of the key livelihood outcomes in the framework of sustainable livelihood [27]; income level directly reflects the level of community livelihoods, whereas livelihood assets have a significant impact on community income [45,48,52,[61][62][63][64][65]. Social assets in particular are the most crucial factor affecting residents' income increase [65].…”

Section: Effect Of Livelihood Assets On Community Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social assets in particular are the most crucial factor affecting residents' income increase [65]. Moreover, the lack of livelihood capital, e.g., social assets, information, etc., is the root cause of community residents having a low income and being mired in poverty [42].…”

Section: Effect Of Livelihood Assets On Community Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

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Study on Livelihood Assets-Based Spatial Differentiation of the Income of Natural Tourism Communities

Zhang

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Livelihood assets have a significant impact on the livelihood options and income of tourism communities. The level of tourism development and the type of natural tourism communities often exhibit spatial differences. By using the method of sustainable livelihood and examining the main factors that affect community income from the perspective of spatial heterogeneity, it is possible to identify the livelihood assets that play the most critical role in the development of sustainable livelihoods and income generation in the community, which helps provide more reasonable advice on tourism destination management. In this article, we conducted a case study on 16 communities in and around Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China, and divided the communities into three types, i.e., core attraction areas, service support areas, and secondary service support areas, according to the geographical and spatial characteristics, tourism development level, and livelihood type. The participatory assessment method was adopted to obtain in-depth interviews and questionnaire data from 256 rural households, which was utilized to construct four multivariate regression models to investigate the effect of livelihood assets on community income and the spatial difference of the factors that affect community income. The results showed that (1) livelihood assets exert a significant impact on community income in tourist areas, with a remarkable spatial difference; (2) the types of livelihoods and the effective utilization of livelihood assets have a significant impact on farmers' incomes; (3) the type and amount of livelihood assets have a certain impact on the choice of livelihood; and (4) a farmer's livelihood type determines the utilization method and the effective utilization of livelihood assets.

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“…While there are undoubtedly high levels of vulnerability among displaced populations, there are often equally high levels of vulnerability among host populations and other migrant populations (Landau and Duponchel, 2011;Myroniuk and Vearey, 2014). Analytically distancing international migrants from these sub-national dynamics significantly limits the ability to develop effective, ethical and politically palatable policy responses.…”

Section: Geographic Scope and Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

International Migration Report 2015 - Highlights

2015

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Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg: Differential Advantages and Unexpected Outcomes among Foreign-Born Migrants, Internal Migrants, and Long-Term South African Residents

Cited by 22 publications

References 82 publications

The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum-seekers in Johannesburg

The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum-seekers in Johannesburg

Study on Livelihood Assets-Based Spatial Differentiation of the Income of Natural Tourism Communities

International Migration Report 2015 - Highlights

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