Program: Masters Research Budget

Title: Exploring motivating factors of migration and perceptions of people involved in

urban/rural migration in Matshana community in KwaZulu-Natal.
Location of the study: Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal in Matshana community.
Budget date: 2020/01/14

Description Amount

Accommodation R30 000

Meals R8000

Transport R5000

Research Resources (data analysis, devices, translation etc.) R10 000

Contingency R5000

Total Amount R58 000

Chapter General background to the study: introduction, urban to rural migration, research questions,
1 research objectives, research design, and methodology.

Chapter Theoretical Framework: The social capital theory as the main theory and pull/push factors
2 model to accommodate silent themes of factors in the research. Literature review of the
previous studies.

Chapter The trends in migration especially urban to rural migration in the Matshana community
3 through the exploration of factors and perception of people involved in the migration process.
Chapter Who Participates? The newly and returns migrants, closed residences that have never leave a
4 place before, the community. The relationship between factors and urban to rural migration
movement.
Chapter Results, Data analysis, implications for theory, Rational choice and group-model perspectives.
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Chapter Conclusion: strategies for maintaining the migration process, possibilities for further urban to
6 rural movements, implications for the rural development, suggestions for future research.