Showing papers on "Circular migration published in 1998"

Hoe And Wage: A Social History Of A Circular Migration System In West Africa

Abstract: Based on an unusual source--a retrospective survey of migration from 1900 to 1975--this 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...includes data on nearly one hundred thousand migrants and on 1.5 million instances of migration...[The data on women] show higher levels of female labor migration and more diverse patterns of mobility than previously suspected. Although the emphasis of the study is on the analysis of survey data the book also integrates historical and anthropological research on burkinabe societies. The authors describe the circular migrant labor system as "a household strategy geared to survival rather than accumulation and development" and conclude that the long-established circular migration patterns around Burkina Faso are contributing to "structural underdevelopment and massive poverty." (EXCERPT)