Steele, Ross McLean
Description
This thesis investigates the origins of lifetime migrants to
Surabaya, East Java, and examines the occupational mobility which they
experienced as a result of migration. It is mainly concerned with
evaluating the occupational mobility and occupational position of
inmigrants at different stages of migration in terms of the inmigrants
origins and pre-migration characteristics.
The first part of the study (Chapters Two, Three and Four) analyses
the historical evolution of Surabaya, the...[Show more] geographical origins of migrants
and their demographic and socio-economic characteristics prior to
migration. The second and major part of the study (Chapters Five, Six,
Seven and Eight) compares sequentially the occupations of inmigrants
before migration, on arrival in Surabaya, and at the time of the survey
in 1974. The amount of occupational mobility experienced by migrants is
assessed according to changes between these periods of time in the
occupational status and sector of employment defined according to the
tri-sectoral model of the urban economy. The aim of these two approaches
is on the one hand to assess (for the first time) the explanatory value
of the tri-sectoral model in explaining intersectoral occupational
mobility associated with migration; and on the other to assess whether
an approach which incorporates the individual pre-migration attributes of
migrants has a greater capacity to predict the occupational and socioeconomic
status of inmigrants.
The major finding is that although most migrants have benefited
economically from the move to Surabaya, few have been occupationally mobile
at any stage of migration. Migrants from underprivileged backgrounds prior
to migration have in most cases seen their underprivileged position
relative to other migrants carried with them to Surabaya. Another finding
is that as a predictor of occupational mobility or as an analytical tool
to examine labour markets, the tri-sectoral model is not a significant
advance on the traditional model of urban dualism. Third, because of
the lack of occupational mobility among migrants, a multivariate model
based on five pre-migration predictors alone is able to 'explain' a
significant proportion of the income of male and female migrants in
Surabaya.
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