Die Suche nach Sicherheit — Kombinierte Produktionsformen im Sogenannten Informellen Sektor

Evers, Hans‐Dieter; Elwert, Georg; Wilkens, Werner

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-83504-8_8

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“…This underlines the frequent socioeconomic heterogeneity of extended families (Ferraro 1971: 119-124;Githinji 2000: 53-56;Kroeker 2018: 281). Interestingly, the combination of sources of income was an important topic in a general development discussion that took place in Germany in the 1990s in respect of the so-called 'Bielefeld approach' (Elwert/Evers/Wilkens 1983). However, the focus was on the poor.…”

Section: The Middle-income Group In Kenyamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Socio-economic positioning of households depends on strategic decisions in respect of managing income generation, making economic investments, paying for the children's education, and meeting obligations towards members of the family network. The handy formula of 'security maximisation' (Elwert/Evers/Wilkens 1983) might work for the very poor, without overdoing the rationality argument (Neubert 1986). However, for the better-off, there is room for manoeuvre.…”

Section: Means Of Coping With Risk and Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Middle-Income Groups in Kenya. Conflicting Realities Between Upward Mobility and Uncertainty

Neubert

2019

sozialpolitik.ch

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For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’, empirical social science studies challenge the ‘middle class narrative’ and at their uncertainty and insecurity. This tension between upward mobility at the one hand uncertainty and instability at the other hand (the vulnerability-security nexus) and the options to cope with this challenge under the condition of limited provision of formal social security is the focus of this case study on Kenya. Instead of an analysis of inequality based on income, it is more helpful to start from the welfare mix and the role of social networks as main elements of provision of social security. Against this background, we identify different strategies of coping that go together with different sets of values and lifestyles, conceptualised as milieus, that are not determined by the socio-economic situation.

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Section: The Middle-income Group In Kenyamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Means Of Coping With Risk and Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%