Proliferation of pockets of precarious housing and the health of internal migrants in Douala and Yaoundé: an analysis from the perspective of long-term and long-distance residential and urban mobility.

TEDA SOH FOSSI RODRIGUE MARCIAL, IFORD

Residential and urban mobility are part of people's daily lives in a given country. They therefore play a part in the reshaping of living spaces, both in conurbations and in the suburbs. What's more, with urban sprawl, most of the peri-urban areas conquered by the internal migrants interviewed have been swallowed up and, as a result, they find themselves in agglomerations in-extenso. As a result, our cities are becoming coloured by pockets of precarious housing. The aim of this article is therefore to present the situation and the extent of the spread of pockets of precarious housing in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé, to determine the impact of long-distance and long-duration residential and urban mobility on the proliferation of pockets of precarious housing in the two cities, and then the effect of long-distance and long-duration residential and urban mobility on the health of migrants as a result of their living environment. To do this, the data collected by the INS as part of the agreement with the Ministère de l'Habitat et du Développement Urbain (MINHDU) through the Contrat d'Assistance Technique INS-MINHDU 2022 et 2023 (CAT INS-MINHDU 2022 et 2023); we collected data with households in pockets of precarious housing.

Keywords: Migrant Populations and Refugees, Internal Migration and Urbanization

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