Effects of residential mobility and migration on standards of living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A life-course approach.

ABSTRACT: Rural-to-urban migration and intra-urban residential mobility often lead to improved living conditions. However, it is not clear if this is true for all, especially in cities in developing countries, where inequalities persist and upward mobility remains elusive for marginalized populations. We investigate the effects of intra-urban residential mobility and rural-to-urban migration on standards of living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We examine the entire residential history of individuals and assess temporal changes in living conditions in their respective housing careers. We use four different aspects of housing as indicators of living conditions from a survey conducted by the World Bank Group that captured the residential history of 2,397 individuals in Dar es Salaam from a spatially repr

SUBMITTER: Patel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523954 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature