Circular migration in Zimbabwe & contemporary sub-Saharan Africa /

Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Potts, Deborah (Deborah Helen) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2010.
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
Temas:
1900-1999
Migration, Internal > Economic aspects > Zimbabwe.
Migrant labor > Zimbabwe.
Rural-urban migration > Zimbabwe.
Migration, Internal > Economic aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Migrant labor > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Rural-urban migration > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Migration intérieure > Aspect économique > Zimbabwe.
Travailleurs migrants > Zimbabwe.
Exode rural > Zimbabwe.
Migration intérieure > Aspect économique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Travailleurs migrants > Afrique subsaharienne.
Exode rural > Afrique subsaharienne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Economic history.
Migrant labor.
Migration, Internal > Economic aspects.
Rural-urban migration.
Binnenlandse migratie.
Arbeidsmigratie.
Economische aspecten.
Harare (Zimbabwe) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe > Harare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of declining urban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. -- Back cover.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations, charts, graphs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289) and index.
ISBN:9781846159169
1846159164

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