Migration, Livelihoods and Institutions: Contrasting Patterns of Migration in Mali

Arjan de Haan, Karen Brock and Ngolo Coulibaly

Journal of Development Studies, 2002, vol. 38, issue 5, 37-58

Abstract: Migration is a common and essential livelihood strategy in the risk-prone environment of Sahelian West Africa. But migration is not a passive reaction to economic and environmental forces. Patterns of movement are determined by context-specific and complex dynamics, mediated by social networks, gender relations and household structures. IDS-based research on sustainable livelihoods illustrated this in two locations in Mali: in a village in the Sahelian dryland with different and gendered migration patterns of various ethnic groups; and exceptional patterns in the Sudano-Sahelian cotton region with extensive and long-lasting engagement in small cocoa and coffee plantations in Cote d'Ivoire.

Keywords: Sahelian West Africa; migration; IDS-based research; Mali (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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