A master thesis from Aalborg University
Urbanization in Greenland: exploring the motivating factors of why people move to Nuuk
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Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2019
Submitted on
2019-05-30
Pages
120 pages
Abstract
Migration fra mindre til større byer i Grønland er en trend. Som et case på urbanisering, har den seneste udvikling vist en stigende tendens til at der sker en vandring til Nuuk fra andre byer i Grønland. I litteraturen er politiske, sociale, økonomiske og historiske faktorer ofte beskrevet som værende årsager til urbanisering i Grønland. En litteratursøgning inden for emnet viser, at der ikke er mange forskningsstudier der er baseret på kvalitative interviewstudier inden for folks subjektive motivationer for at flytte. I dette speciale anses det som et vigtigt bidrag at undersøge urbanisering nærmere i form af et kvalitativt studie, og der argumenteres for, at der herigennem kan udledes viden omkring hvorfor folk vælger at flytte. Med et interviewstudie af folks motivationer for tilflytning til Nuuk er formålet med dette speciale at bidrage med et kvalitativt perspektiv på emnet urbanisering i Grønland.
Migration from smaller to bigger towns is a trend in Greenland. As a case of urbanization, recent development has shown an increasing tendency of migration to Nuuk from other towns in Greenland. In literature, urbanization in Greenland has been described as being caused by both political, social, economic and historical factors. A literature review of the topic shows that not many research studies on urbanization have included qualitative interview studies on the subjective motivations of people who are moving. In this thesis, it has been deemed important to further investigate urbanization in the form of a qualitative study, as it is arguably possible to derive new knowledge of the reasons why people have migrated. With an interview study of people’s motivations for migrating, the aim of this thesis is to add a qualitative perspective to the topic of urbanization in Greenland.
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