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Pollé, Nick (2023)

Social Mobility and Paratransit: A Social Mobility Analysis using Spatial Data in Nairobi, Kenya

Bachelor thesis | Urban Studies (BA)

Social mobility has acquired expansive interest from the academic literature. Nevertheless, there are numerous components of social mobility and methodologies that have not received the same level of attention. This research paper combines various poorly researched aspects of social mobility to establish an introductory and exploratory foundation for novel research studies. In so doing, it aims to examine the applicability of social mobility theories and models to a non-Western setting: Nairobi, Kenya and open up new opportunities and directions for social mobility research. Using spatial analysis research, this paper shows that indeed there are patterns and variations that differ in significance for social mobility in Nairobi compared to the suggestions of the existing literature. It, therefore, indicates the need for additional research of social mobility using new lenses and methods.

Social mobility

paratransit

Nairobi

triad of determinants

spatial analysis

Author

Pollé, Nick

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Multicultural City

Supervisors

Krakowska Rodrigues, K.K.
Barmentlo S.H.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en