Prof D Gelderblom

Qualifications

• MA (SUN)
• DPhil (UDW)

Fields of academic interests

• Rural-urban migration the limitations of neo-classical and neoliberal economic theories
• The limitations of neo-classical and neoliberal economic theories

Field of Specialisation

• Economic Sociology
• Migration
• Theory
• Social capital

Books

Social institutions. Cape Town: Oxford University Press. 2003.
Migration patterns in South Africa. In Fayola, T. & Salm, S. (eds) Globalization and urbanization in Africa. Trenton, N.J., Africa World Press. 2004.

The just community: Emile Durkheim on liberalism and society. In Van der Walt, A. (ed) Theories of social and economic justice. Stellenbosch: Sun Press. 2005.

A synthetic model of migration. In Kok, P., Gelderblom, D., Oucho, J. & Van Zyl, J. (eds) Migration in South and Southern Africa: dynamics and determinants. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 2006.

The limits and possibilities of migrant networks (with Whynie Adams). In Kok, P., Gelderblom, D., Oucho, J. & Van Zyl, J. (eds) Migration in South and Southern Africa: dynamics and determinants.
Cape Town: HSRC Press. 2006.

Introduction (with Pieter Kok and Johan Van Zyl). In Kok, P., Gelderblom, D., Oucho, J. & Van Zyl, J. (eds) Migration in South and Southern Africa: dynamics and determinants. Cape Town: HSRC
Press. 2006.

Views on migration in sub-Saharan Africa: Proceedings of an African Migration Alliance workshop. C. Cross, D. Gelderblom, J. Mafukidze & N. Roux (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 2006.

Journal articles

‘Migration and inequality: unravelling one thread of a complex web.’ Africanus 36(2), 2006.

‘The migration of the poor in South Africa: evidence, explanations and implications'. Development Southern Africa 24(2), June 2007.

'Family versus friends as social capital: The case of Zimbabwean undocumented migrants in

Botswana.' South African Sociological Review 45(2), 2014. With Canisio Mutsindikwa.