The Patterns of Sociocultural Adaptation of Migrants in The City of Ternate, North Maluku

摘要

Studies on adaptation of migrants in a new urban environment have widely been explored by researchers from various perspectives and disciplines. Most of the studies focus on how migrants from socially less complex society, be it rural areas or less developed countries, adapt to a more complex urban or developed society. Although those studies offer significant contribution to our understanding on migrant adaptation, they do not address issues on how migrants from more complex society adapt in less complex urban setting. As a result, we do not have much knowledge on how the migrants from more complex social environment adapt to a less complex social environment. By interviewing migrants coming from big cities to the small city of Ternate, this study investigates the patterns of adaptation undertaken by migrants coming from socially more complex society to a socially less complex society. This study find that patterns of adaptation strategies carried out by migrants in Ternate is mainly related to the context specific problems they face in the Ternate city.