Hoe and wage : a social history of a circular migration system in West Africa
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Hoe and wage : a social history of a circular migration system in West Africa
（African modernization and development）
Westview Press, 1996
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Hoe & wage
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Bibliography: p. 343-365
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Based on an unusual sourcea retrospective survey of migration from 1900 to 1975this book traces the history of internal and international labor migration in colonial and contemporary Burkina Faso, the West African coast, and other parts of Africa. Interviews with returned migrants elicited information about age, matrimonial status, motives for migrating, employment, destinations, residence, and motives for returning. The survey, which includes data on nearly one hundred thousand migrants and on 1.5 million instances of migration, offers a uniquely African perspective on migration in the region. Based on an unusual sourcea retrospective survey of migration from 1900 to 1975this book traces the history of internal and international labor migration involving colonial and contemporary Burkina Faso, the West African coast, and other parts of Africa. Interviews with returned migrants elicited information about age, matrimonial status, motives for migrating, employment, destinations, residence, and motives for returning. The survey, which includes data on nearly one hundred thousand migrants and on 1.5 million instances of migration, offers a uniquely African perspective on migration on an unprecedented scale.
Especially valuable are the data on women, which show higher levels of female labor migration and more diverse patterns of mobility than previously suspected. Although the emphasis of the study is on analysis of the survey data, the book also integrates historical and anthropological research on burkinabe societies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Labor Migration in West Africa: Past and Present
- Contexts of Burkinab Migration: Precolonial
- Societies and Colonial Policies
- The Creation of a Male Migrant Labor System: Colonial Burkina Faso, 19001946
- From Colonial Ghana to Cte dIvoire: The Growth of Free Labor Migration, 19471973
- The Men Followed the Money and the Women
- Followed the Men: Female Migration, 19001973
- Yes, Migration Is Good, but Yes, Migration Is Bad, But: Circular Migration and Underdevelopment
- Conclusion and Epilogue.
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