Journal of Development Studies articles from June 2002

Journal of Development Studies archives from June 2002

Introduction: migrant workers and their role in rural change.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... There is no dearth of literature on migration in and from Asia and Africa. Yet the literature insufficiently accounts for one of the most important forms of population mobility: migration of rural people for various forms of work elsewhere,...

Fulani on the move: seasonal economic migration in the Sahel as a social process.(study examines migration and the social and economic relations of Fulani of Northern Burkina Faso)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Rural-to-urban migration is a well-documented phenomenon in West Africa. While most earlier work has concentrated on long-term or permanent movements, the importance of short-term and seasonal migration is becoming increasingly recognised...

Migration, livelihoods and institutions: contrasting patterns of migration in Mali.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION Migration is often explained through narratives in which rural inhabitants, mostly men, migrate in response to negative factors such as environmental change, population growth or increasing economic pressure. In the case of...

Brokered livelihoods: debt, labour migration and development in tribal Western India.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... 1. INTRODUCTION With a few notable exceptions [e.g., Breman, 1996], seasonal labour migration in India is a little studied subject. For one thing, being absent from routine and official data sources such as the National Sample Survey or...

Seasonal migration and welfare/illfare in Eastern India: A social analysis.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... I.INTRODUCTION This study draws on long-term in-depth research with seasonally migrant manual wage workers in eastern India to examine the welfare/illfare (1) outcomes of that migration. We examine various aspects of illfare/welfare and we...

Migration and livelihoods in historical perspective: A case study of Bihar, India.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION One of the conclusions of my research on migration in India, which focused on the labour market in an industrial neighbourhood in Calcutta, was that unskilled labour was not only migratory, but also that the migration has...

Daughters and displacement: migration dynamics in an Indonesian transmigration area.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Throughout Indonesia, rural livelihoods are characterised by participation in work away from the farm, frequently involving the engagement of farm families in urban labour markets [Hetler, 1989; Hugo, 1992; Rigg, 1998]....

Gender, migration and multiple livelihoods: cases from Eastern and Southern Africa.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION For the last century, millions of rural households in eastern and southern Africa have depended on labour migration for their livelihoods. In colonial Kenya and Zimbabwe and in South Africa, Africans were pushed into...