African urbanization: Recent trends and implications

The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 301-316

  White, Michael J ^a   Mberu, Blessing U ^a   Collinson, Mark A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925739735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849773157     Document Type: Chapter

References (44)

1. Andersson, J. A. (2001) ‘Mobile workers, urban employment and “rural” identities: Rural– urban networks of Buhera migrants, Zimbabwe’, in M. de Bruijn, R. Van Dijk and D. Foeken (eds) Mobile Africa: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp89–106
2. APHRC (2002) Population and Health Dynamics in Nairobi Informal Settlements, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi
3. Bocquier, P. and Traore, S. (1998) ‘Migration and urbanization in West Africa: Methodological issues in data collection and inference’, in R. E. Bilsborrow (ed) Migration, Urbanization and Development: New Directions and Issues, UNFPA and Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York
4. Bouare, O. (2006) ‘Levels of urbanization in Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone African countries’, in C. Cross, D. Gelderblom, N. Roux and J. Mafukidze (eds) Views on Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Proceedings of an African Migration Alliance Workshop, HSRC Press, Cape Town
5. Brockerhoff, M. and Brennan, E. (1998) ‘The poverty of cities in developing countries’, Population and Development Review, vol 24, no 1, pp75–114
6. Chen, N., Valente, P. and Zlotnik, H. (1998) ‘What do we know about recent trends in urbanization?’, in R. E. Bilsborrow (ed) Migration, Urbanization and Development: New Directions and Issues, UNFPA/Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York
7. Chukwuezi, B. (2001) ‘Through thick and thin: Igbo rural–urban circularity, identity and investment’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol 19, no 1, pp55–66
8. Cincotta, R. and Engleman, R. (2000) Nature’s Place, Population Action International, Washington, DC
9. Clark, S. J., Collinson, M. A., Kahn, K., Drullinger, K. and Tollman, S. M. (2007) ‘Returning home to die: Urban to rural migration and mortality in rural South Africa’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, vol 35, supplement 69, pp35–44
10. Cohen, B. (2004) ‘Urban growth in developing countries: A review of current trends and a caution regarding existing forecasts’, World Development, vol 32, pp23–51
11. Collinson, M. A., Garenne, M., Tollman, S. M., Kahn, K. and Mokoena, O. (2000) ‘Moving to Mkhuhlu: Emerging patterns of migration in the new South Africa’, AHPU Working Paper Series, Agincourt Health and Population Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
12. Collinson, M. A., Tollman, S. M., Kahn, K., Clark, S. J. and Garenne, M. (2006) ‘Highly prevalent circular migration: Households, mobility and economic status in rural South Africa’, in S. E. Findley, E. Preston-Whyte, M. Tienda and S. M. Tollman (eds) Africa on the Move: Migration in Comparative Perspective, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa
13. Collinson, M. A., Clark, S. J., Tollman, S. M., Kahn, K., White, M. J., Clark, B. D., Eaton, J., Gómez-Olivé, F. X. and Shabangu, M. (2007a) ‘Measuring change in absolute socioeconomic status and linking it to contemporary migration patterns in the rural northeast of South Africa’, AHPU Working Paper Series, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
14. Collinson, M. A., Tollman, S. M. and Kahn, K. (2007b) ‘Migration, settlement change and health in post-apartheid South Africa: Triangulating Agincourt Demographic Surveillance with national census data’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, vol 35, supplement 69, pp77–84
15. Ezra, M. (2001) ‘Ecological degradation, rural poverty and migration in Ethiopia: A contextual analysis’, Population Council Working Paper No 149, Policy Research Division, The Population Council, New York
16. Garenne, M. (2006) ‘Migration, urbanization and child health: An African perspective’, in S. E. Findley, E. Preston-Whyte, M. Tienda and S. M. Tollman (eds) Africa on the Move: Migration in Comparative Perspective, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa
17. Gugler, J. (2002). ‘The son of a hawk does not remain abroad: The urban–rural connection in Africa’, African Studies Review, vol 45, no 1, pp21–41
18. Hargreaves, J., Collinson, M., Kahn, K., Clark, S. and Tollman, S. (2004) ‘Childhood mortality among former Mozambican refugees and their hosts in rural South Africa’, International Journal of Epidemiology, vol 33, no 6, pp1271–1278
19. Kahn, K., Tollman, S. M., Collinson, M. A., Clark, S. J., Twine, R., Clark, B. D., Shabangu, M., Gómez-Olivé, F. X., Mokoena, O. and Garenne, M. (2007) ‘Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: Data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, vol 35, supplement 69, pp8–20
20. Kessides, C. (2006) The Urban Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cities Alliance and World Bank, Washington, DC
21. Lipton, M. (1976) Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
22. Lloyd, C. B. (ed) (2005) Growing up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, Washington, DC
23. Lowry, I. (1990) ‘World urbanization in perspective’, in K. Davis and M. S. Bernstam (eds) ‘Population, resources and environment: Present knowledge, future options’, Population and Development Review, vol 16, supplement, pp148–176
24. Mabogunje, A. L. (2007) ‘Global urban poverty research: The African case’, Urban Update, no 10, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
25. Mberu, B. U. (2005) ‘Who moves to rural or urban areas? Who stays? The case of rural out-migration in Nigeria’, Journal of Population Research, vol 22, no 2, pp141–161
26. Montgomery, M., Stren, R., Cohen, B. and Reed, R. (eds) (2003) Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World, National Academy Press, Washington, DC
27. Oucho, J. O. (1998) ‘Recent internal migration processes in sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants, consequences and data adequacy issues’, in R. E. Bilsborrow (ed) Migration, Urbanization and Development: New Directions and Issues, UNFPA and Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York
28. Population Reference Bureau (2006) ‘World population data sheet’, Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC
29. Ravallion, M., Chen, S. and Sangraula, P. (2007) ‘New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty’, manuscript, World Bank, Washington, DC
30. Roberts, B. R. (2006) ‘Comparative urban systems: An overview’, in S. E. Findley, E. Preston-Whyte, M. Tienda and S. M. Tollman (eds) Africa on the Move: Migration in Comparative Perspective, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa
31. Ross, F. C. (1996) ‘Diffusing domesticity: Domestic fl uidity in Die Bos’, Social Dynamics, vol 22, no 1, pp55–71
32. Simon, D., McGregor, D. and Nsiah-Gyabaah, K. (2004) ‘The changing urban–rural interface of African cities: Defi nitional issues and an application to Kumasi, Ghana’, Environment and Urbanization, vol 16, no 2, pp235–247
33. Tabutin, D. and Schoumaker, B. (2004) ‘The demography of sub-Saharan Africa from the 1950s to the 2000s: A survey of changes and a statistical assessment’, Population, vol 59, nos 3–4, pp457–556
34. Tacoli, C. (2001) ‘Urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa: Changing patterns and trends’, in M. de Bruijn, R. Van Dijk and D. Foeken (eds) Forms of Mobility and Mobility of Forms: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond, Africa Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
35. Townsend, N., Madhavan, S., Tollman, S., Garenne, M. and Kahn, K. (2002) ‘Children’s residence patterns and educational attainment in rural South Africa, 1997’, Population Studies, vol 56, no 2, pp215–225
36. UNFPA (2007) The State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth, UNFPA, New York
37. UN-Habitat (2003) The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements, Earthscan, London and Sterling, UK
38. UN-Habitat (2007) State of World’s Cities Report 2006/7: The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability, Earthscan, London
39. United Nations (2006a) World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision, Population Division, United Nations, New York
40. United Nations (2006b) World Population Policies 2005, Population Division, United Nations, New York
41. White, M. J. and Lindstrom, D. P. (2005) ‘Internal migration’, in D. Poston and M. Micklin (eds) Handbook of Population, Springer, New York
42. World Bank (2000) Entering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000, Oxford University Press, New York
43. Zulu, E. M., Dodoo, F. N-A. and Chika-Ezeh, A. (2002) ‘Sexual risk-taking in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, 1993–1998’, Population Studies, vol 56, no 3, pp311–323
44. Zulu, E. M., Konseiga, A., Darteh, E. and Mberu, B. (2006) ‘Migration and the urbanization of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Nairobi City, Kenya’, working paper of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi