Labour Migration: An Option for Peasant Livelihood?

Elke Grawert
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Elke Grawert: University of Bremen

Chapter 6 in Making a Living in Rural Sudan, 1998, pp 117-151 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Migration comprises a multitude of physical movements in space and time. It is a process which is spatially subdivided into sending areas, routes of migration and receiving areas. With regard to the motivations of migrants, three types of migration can be distinguished: enforced migration, voluntary migration and distress migration. The first is decided upon by external powers. Resettlement programmes of governments for instance fall into this category. The second is the outcome of a decision-making process of migrants and their families. It refers to labour migration and to migration for the purposes of education or marriage. The third type of migration is caused by deprivation. In this case the decision to migrate is made in order to escape from an environment which is no longer felt to guarantee survival. Migration due to drought, crop failure and famine is, among other causes, covered by this category (Sharp et al., 1991, p. 2). This classification is of course a theoretical one. In practice motivations overlap and the border lines between the categories are vague.1

Keywords: Labour Market; Household Member; Labour Migration; Wage Labour; Livelihood Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26804-7_6

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