Reasoning Of Inmigrant Living In Slums Area At Palembang City

 

Bambang Bemby Soebyakto and Mukhtaruddin Young

 

Full Length Research Paper I Published April,2016

 

Pearl Journal of Management, Social Science and Humanities Vol. 2 (2), pp. 17-24

ABSTRACT

This study intended to find the problems about the reasons why immigrant settle in Palembang city slums. The purpose of the study is to describe the immigrant distribution and their reason to settle in Palembang city slums. The procedures in this study uses descriptive mix methods design. The samples of quantative method constitute 74 respondents taken using propotional stratified random sampling. Likert scale is applied to measure the respondent answer. The data were tabulated to get the frequencies. The samples of qualitative method constitutes 23 informants taken using purposive sampling analysed by using data reduction, display, and conclusion technique. The result of this study indicate that the migrants who settled Palembang City slum area were originally and not from Palembang city but from Ogan Ilir, Ogan Komering Ulu, Ogan Komering Ilir, Banyuasin, Lampung, dan Jawa. They choose to live in this area which characteristic is same as their homeland. This study results also identified that most immigrants in Palembang city slum settle there because the settle location is near their expected life-changing working area.

Key words: Immigrant, Migrant, Slum Areas.

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