Bridges to nowhere: Hosts, migrants, and the chimera of social capital in three African cities

Population and Development Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-497

  Madhavan, Sangeetha ^a   Landau, Loren B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGMENTATION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HISTORY; KENYA; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; MOZAMBIQUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCULTURATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; KENYA; MOZAMBIQUE; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 80052409821     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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