Low-income rural youth migrating to urban universities in South Africa
Opportunities and inequalities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11920645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Walker (0000-0002-7859-6380, University of the Free State, corresponding author), Carmen Martinez-Vargas (0000-0002-7426-0046, SARChI Research Programme on Higher Education & Human Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa), Mikateko Mathebula (0000-0003-1209-4684, SARChI Research Programme on Higher Education & Human Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1193-1209 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057925.2019.1587705 |
| OpenAlex | W2923663577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 11 |
In order to understand how students from low-income rural backgrounds in South Africa experience higher education and the opportunities and obstacles they encounter, the paper draws on two waves of interviews with 30 students currently studying at three large urban universities. Using concepts of capabilities and functionings, monetary resources and ‘capitals’, the paper outlines common factors which shape rural students’ well-being and their agency in accessing an urban university. Student voices indicate the particular importance of being able to exercise the functioning of navigating and manoeuvring through unfamiliar and often intimidating institutions. The discussion also indicates that it is the intersection of rurality and low income which shapes, even if it does not over-determine, their lives at university. It is suggested that universities could do more to support these students’ well-being, and to recognise the agency and admirable determination which students bring to the challenges they face
Agency (philosophy · Business · Cartography · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Higher education · Inequality · Intersection (aeronautics · Low income · Order (exchange · Political science · Rural area · Rurality · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Education Systems and Policy · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Higher Education Research Studies
Covid-19 lock-down socio-economic challenges faced by households in rural areas
Assessing the Factors Contributing to Rural-Urban Migration of Youths in South Africa
Academic and Social Adjustment Struggles of First-Year B.Ed. Humanities Students
Leveraging emerging technologies for curriculum design and delivery in rural universities
Decoloniality, identity and the third space
The geography of distance education
Building belonging at university
Rural student mobility and the spatial politics of university access in Nigeria
Introduction
Democratising Participatory Research
Do we have the right to call ourselves an inclusive university? Untold stories of queer students at a rural university in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Transitions from rural contexts to and through higher education in South Africa
You have to change, the curriculum stays the same’
Looking for the future – Hope and adolescent risk behaviour in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Black working-class students’ negotiation of boundaries across time and space
Encounters with coloniality
Towards understanding the influence of rurality on students’ access to and participation in higher education
Navigating Non-Linear Education-to-Work Trajectories
Navigating ‘black tax’ and financial interdependence as a young person in South Africa
Decolonization in South African universities
Rurality and access to higher education
(Non)fungibility of socio-cultural capital for rural-based students in South African universities
Beyond access
Educational Institutions and Epistemic Freedom
A Concise History of South Africa
The Standard of Living
Development as Freedom
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
Women and Human Development
Identities in Transition
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |