Spatial adaptation as the Madurese migrant resilience form at urban informal sector workers settlement: A case study of Kotalama settlement - Malang

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Damayanti Asikin, Antariksa, Lisa Dwi Wulandari, Wara Indira Rukmi

2018 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 99 Issue 1 Conference paper Cited by 3 Quartile

Abstract

Migration is the movement of the population that will bring the change of society's behavior because of the adjustments occuring at the destination of migrant area. The availability of houses in urban area is not a proportional comparison to the increasing of limited housing space, thus it encourages urban migrants to adapt to the existing conditions. Adaptation will be closely linked to the resilience of migrants in the process of interacting with their environment. The theory of urban settlement architecture continues to grow constantly, so the used paradigm should be interdisciplinary. Thereby, the understanding of adaptation, which is used will concern to various aspects of physical and non-physical environment, and it is viewed as a process and product of human interactions with the environment holistically. Malang city is one of the migration destinations of Madurese people since 1930s, and Kotalama Malang settlement is the settlement that holds the largest Madurese migrant working in informal sector, which has been developed since 1950s. This study was conducted to determine the spatial adaptation of Madurese migrants in urban settlement area as a resilience form towards their settlement environment. The qualitative descriptive method with the discourse analysis approach of searching the data through the observation and the in-depth interview of key person were used to know the adaptation process that happened. The study result indicated that spatial adaptation as a process and product on meso and micro scale conducted by Madurese migrants was the form of resilience towards their settlement environment. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

Affiliations

Stud. of Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Malang, 65145, Indonesia