`I now have so many friends!’ how young migrants describe their quest to belong in a town in southern Uganda

Figures & data

Table 1. Background characteristics of study participants.

Pseudonym (bold denotes name features in paper)	Gender	Age	Education level	Marital status	Language	Months spent in town since arrival at time of 1st interview	Work at time of first interview
Betty	Female	17	Secondary	Single	Luganda	1	Waitress in a restaurant
Lydia	Female	20	Secondary	Single	Luganda	9	Laundry and farm labour
Teddy	Female	20	Primary	Single	Luganda	2	Waitress in a restaurant
Sylvia	Female	20	Secondary	Single	Luganda	9	Laundry, house cleaning, waitress
Agnes	Female	17	Secondary	Single	Luganda	7	Waitress in a restaurant
Winnie	Female	22	None	Separated	Luganda	4	Restaurant attendant, sex work
Joyce	Female	22	Primary	Married	Luganda	2	Planning a fish drying business
Harriet	Female	22	Secondary	Single	Luganda	4	Unpaid trainee hairdresser
Nambusi	Female	18	Secondary	Single	Luganda	4	Shop attendant
Jacob	Male	19	Secondary	Single	Luganda	8	Farm labour, construction site labour, porter at market.
John	Male	18	Primary	Single	Luganda	6	Soft drink vendor, offloads goods at market, construction site labour
Dominic	Male	21	Secondary	Married	Some Luganda (learnt after arrival in town the first time), Rufumbira and English	3 (but second stay in town)	Rice factory labourer
Joel	Male	21	Primary	Single	Luganda/Rufumbira	8	Rice factory labourer
Bosco	Male	21	Secondary	Married	Luganda/Rukiga/Runyankore/English/ Kiswahili	10	Shop attendant
Joseph	Male	20	Secondary	Single	Luganda and Runyankore	8	Farm labour, construction site labour
Gerald	Male	16	Primary	Single	Luganda	8	Returned to school before second interview
Collins	Male	20	Primary	Single	Luganda	5	Fishing
Joshua	Male	18	Secondary	Married	Luganda	4	Offloading goods at the market, farm labour
George	Male	22	Primary	Single	Rufumbira	3	Rice factory labourer
Dickens	Male	23	Secondary	Single	Luganda	4	Pool table attendant