PROSES ADAPTASI MIGRAN SIRKULER : KASUS MIGRAN ASAL KOMUNITAS PERKEBUNAN THE RAKYAT CIANJUR, JAWA BARAT

Abstract

Circular migrant adaptation process: Case of migrants originated from Tea
Smallholder Plantation Community in Cianjur, West Java. Value of work orientation
changes from agriculture towards non-agriculture has caused higher population
mobility from rural to urban areas. Sociologically, this geographical or spatial mobility
is also a socio-cultural mobility from traditional agriculture towards modern industry.
Migrants should be adaptive to new situation so that the purpose of migrating would
be achieved. The objectives of the study are to investigate: (1) influencing factors of
population migration; (2) Adaptation process of migrants originated from smallholder
plantation community in Cianjur working in Tangerang Industrial Areas. The study
applied qualitative method with case study strategy. The results of the study showed
that economic and social factors pushed the migration cases complimentarily.
Adaptation process by maintaining “in group feeling” succeeded in providing sense of
serenity and comfort ability although it seemed to get acculturation process slowed
down. Orientation of working for the future directed the migrants to keep making
relation with their relatives or their hometown communities