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Cecilia Tacoli
30 October 2014 Author name
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Cecilia Tacoli, IIED
IOM WMR 2015 Seminar
30 October 2014
Migration to the cities and
new vulnerabilities
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Cecilia Tacoli
30 October 2014
Understanding diversity and complexity
among migrants
• Wealthier rural residents migrate permanently to
the cities for work and education
• Poorest rural groups are more likely to migrate to
local towns and other rural areas, temporarily or
seasonally
• Women heading their households are a large
proportion of rural-urban female migrants
• But also growing numbers of rural groups who lose
their livelihoods move to urban centres
• As well as IDPs (conflicts and environmental
change)
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Cecilia Tacoli
30 October 2014 Diversity in the forms of migration
• Urban to urban migration a significant share of
movement – often two-thirds of all migrants
• Still a large share of circular and temporary
migrants – possibly the most vulnerable because
they are often excluded from full citizenship rights
• Increasing cross-border regional migration (eg in
Southern Africa), exposing migrants to xenophobia
• Net in-migration to a city can hide significant out-
migration
• Most cities have a mix of all, making it difficult to
devise specific policies for ‘migrants’
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Data on urban poverty and
disadvantage, and migration
• Data on urban disadvantage based on
income/assets, housing and access to basic
services
• Sometimes disaggregated by sex, age and ethnic
group – but NOT by migrant status
• Very large data gaps also on populations living in
informal settlements, the homeless and those
living at their workplace
• In some cities, one-half to three-quarters of the
population live in informal settlements – but not all
of them are migrants
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Cecilia Tacoli
30 October 2014 Migrants’ disadvantage: incomes
• No significant differences with non-migrants among non-poor groups – not all migrants are poor
• But higher overall levels of income poverty (2/3 of all poor in Vietnam’s main cities are migrants) – migrants are a large proportion of the urban poor
• High levels of unstable, informal employment
• Migrant households are more likely to be food insecure than non-migrants – but both are disturbingly high in Southern Africa (78 and 65%)
• In many cases, migrants reduce their own living costs to support rural relatives
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30 October 2014 Access to housing and shelter
• A large proportion of migrants in low-income
settlements, but with important variations
• Older settlements are often home to lower-middle
income groups - who lived there for several
generations after migration (eg ‘notified slums’ in
India)
• More recent settlements are more often home to
recent migrants and people displaced within the
city (eg Old Fadama in Accra), often tenants
• The latter are more likely to have inadequate
shelter, basic infrastructure and access to services
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30 October 2014 A notified slum in Bangalore
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30 October 2014 A ‘first generation’ slum in Bangalore
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Non-income poverty in low-income
urban settlements
• Very large data gaps on people living in these
settlements
• The settlements themselves often do not officially
exist (but can be home to as much as 70 percent
of the city’s population – as in Dar es Salaam)
• Lack of basic infrastructure has huge impacts on
health, especially child mortality rates and stunting
• Environmental hazards are substantial as many
settlements are in marginal areas subject to
flooding and landslides
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Women migrating on their own: a more
vulnerable group?
• An increase in the independent migration of
women as shown by urban sex ratios – but with
regional variations
• A higher proportion of women headed households
among migrants – push factors
• More employment opportunities, but often in low-
paid, insecure jobs (gender-segmented labour
markets)
• In informal settlements, additional burdens due to
lack of basic services and infrastructure, and risk
of gender-based violence
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30 October 2014 Infant and child mortality rates in Kenya (source: APHRC, 2002)
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Environmental hazards in Mathare,
Nairobi
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Environmental hazards in Old Fadama,
Accra
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30 October 2014 The challenge for city governments
• City and municipal governments have a huge
importance in addressing the needs of their
residents
• But in many cases lack resources and capacity,
and perhaps most importantly political will
• Smaller urban centres often have even less
capacities and resources, yet are demographically
important (and also attract migrants)
• Blaming urban poverty on migrants is not realistic:
but while not all migrants are poor, in many cities
they are a large proportion of the urban poor
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30 October 2014 Local initiatives to reduce risk
• Risk as the outcome of exposure and vulnerability – both need to be better understood in urban contexts
• Need for more accurate data on low-income settlements and groups – eg mapping and enumerations – including migrant status
• Most strong urban poverty reduction programmes are place based, with a focus on tenure, housing, basic services
• Migrants are more likely to be included where these programmes are city-wide (and nation-wide)
• Baan Mankong in Thailand; over 100,000 ‘slum’ households
• Asian Coalition for Community Action: over 1,000 community initiatives in 18 countries
• 30+ national federations of slum/shack dwellers, all with mostly women-managed savings group at base, all with many initiatives (where possible with local government)