Does it Take a Village? Migration among Rural South African Youth

Tyler W. Myroniuk (), Michael J. White, Mark Gross, Rebecca Wang, Carren Ginsburg and Mark Collinson
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Tyler W. Myroniuk: George Mason University
Michael J. White: Brown University
Mark Gross: Cabrini University
Rebecca Wang: Brown University
Carren Ginsburg: University of the Witwatersrand
Mark Collinson: University of the Witwatersrand

Population Research and Policy Review, 2018, vol. 37, issue 6, No 9, 1079-1108

Abstract: Abstract In a rural African context, the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child,” suggests that community characteristics are substantially important in children’s lives as they transit to adulthood. Are these contextual factors also related to youth migration? Demographers are uncertain about how community characteristics improve our understanding of an individual’s propensity to migrate, beyond individual and household factors. In many low- and middle-income country settings, youth become migrants for the first time in their lives to provide access to resources that their families need. We employ discrete-time event history models from 2003 to 2011 Agincourt Health and socio-Demographic Surveillance System in rural South Africa to test whether markers of development in a village are associated with the likelihood of youth and young adults migrating, distinguishing between becoming temporary and permanent migrants during this critical life cycle phase. We find that village characteristics indeed differentially predict migration, but not nearly as substantially as might be expected.

Keywords: Event history analysis; Migration; South Africa; Youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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