Moving from Tanjung Mas, Semarang : The effects of floods on the life of the coastal inhabitants of the city
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2014-07-28
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Tanjung Mas, a neighbourhood in the northern part of Semarang, suffers from big environmental
problems. Due to land subsidence, the rising sea level and heavy rains, some parts of the
neighbourhood experience floods every day. And this will only become worse in the future, because
of the continuing of the land subsidence of 9 centimeters every year, increased by ground water
extraction and construction load. Water will flow into the houses, and people are not able to go
anywhere. So people cannot escape from this silent disaster, which makes it socially relevant to do
this research. However, the inhabitants are not moving out of the neighbourhood. So migration is
still an exception. Besides, not a lot of research is done on this topic, especially not in relation to
environmental changes. Research about the relation between migration and environmental change
did not really exist until the 1980s, which is quite recent. That makes it academically relevant to do
this research, which leads to the aim of this research:
The aim of this research is to acquire an in-depth understanding of the effects of floods on the
livelihoods of the inhabitants of the village Tanjung Mas in the city of Semarang, and
its relation to the perception about migration, based on their (im)mobility and the decisionmaking
process of migration.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen