Exploring Relative Deprivation Theory with Social Identity Theory to Inequalities: Issue of Migrants in Biak, Papua

Abstract

Facing emerging-economic market, that shifting local culture to urban culture and civilisation. For some regions, such as Biak, Papua where the indigenous people still highly uphold the concepts of kinship and tribal. The diversity of human mobility and environmental change have emerged to resistance and negativity views in the perception, judgment and behaviour indigenous people, which shown both in social interactions and discursive. This occurs due to the lack of capacity and equity to compete with migrants, specifically with Javanese migrants. In this regard, this paper explores Relative Deprivation Theory with Social Identity Theory, to understand and get an insight to how people respond to dramatic changes from subjective-objective circumstances, to understand collective socio-cultural phenomena regarding migrants and inequalities.