Socio-economic effects of marginalization of manja ethnic group in essera district dawuro zone, southern Ethiopia

Abstract

The marginalization is segregation of some ethnic group from economic, political and social activities. This study was aimed to investigate the socio-economic effects of Marginalization of Manja Ethnic Group in Essera District, Dawuro Zone Southern Ethiopia. A multistage sampling design used to select 10 kebeles out of 29 rural kebeles of the EsseraDistrict. Primary data were collected from 281 sampled respondents, Focus Group Discussions and key informant interview. Checklists and structured questionnaire was used for qualitative and quantitative respectively. For secondary data collected from internet source and journal. Data were analyzed quantitatively by using different statistical methods such as percentage, frequency through tabulation. From the Econometrics, the Binary Logistic regression models used to identify the important factors for the marginalization of Manja ethnic group and the qualitative data was analyzed qualitatively. For statistical analysis SPSS version 20 Computer software were employed.The finding reveals that the major causes for the marginalization were living apart from malla ethnic group, undermining themselves, eating dead animals and lack of sanitation. With regard to the social and economic effect, the result indicates that manja ethnic group of people are more excluded and marginalized from social and economy participation in Essera District of the Dawuro zone. Among 8 the predictors included in the logistic model, 4 were significant at (p<0.05) probability level. Accordingly, Educational level, possession of fixed asset, mass media access and market access found to be highly important variables influencing marginalization of manja ethnic group. Therefore, all concerned bodies should give attention to factors that significantly influence marginalization