ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the aspects of the urban residential situation into which the new arrivals were being absorbed. It presents some selected data on the population of the 13 survey tracts in the centres extra-coutumier. The chapter provides a more detailed analysis of four selected neighbourhoods in the three townships in an attempt to elucidate the factors underlying the development and maintenance of 'natural areas'. The four selected neighbourhoods are neighbourhoods I, II, III and IV. The chapter compares the selection of newcomers to the four neighbourhoods and describes the practical accommodation arrangements of people who had been in town for varying periods of time. Neighbourhood I attracted very few migrants from tribal areas in the countryside, whereas substantial proportions of new arrivals in Neighbourhoods II, III, and IV had come direct from native villages without any intervening period in smaller labour centres.
