City Work in a Time of AIDS: Maasai Labor Migration in Tanzania

May, Ann Mari; McCabe, J. Terrence

doi:10.1353/at.2005.0010

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“…Local entrepreneurship is a growing and understudied diversification phenomenon among the Maasai with important implications on women's economic and productive roles. Men still make up the overwhelming majority of migrants to cities and towns outside of Maasailand in search of work (May and McCabe 2004;Archambault 2013). The large majority of families in Elangata Wuas have at least one child reported to be living outside of the homestead.…”

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Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation

Archambault

2016

Int J Commons

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Throughout the world pastoralists today face a particularly daunting challenge of intensified rangeland fragmentation combined with human population growth and climate change. In many pastoral settings, rangelands are undergoing processes of fragmentation due to tenure transformations, as previously communal lands are privatized into individual holdings. Such processes of enclosure have raised concerns over the long-term costs on pastoral communities and on rangeland eco-systems. This paper explores pastoral responses and adaptations to enclosure based on long-term ethnographic engagement in a Maasai community in Southern Kenya that has recently privatized. Detailed family case studies and herd tracking illuminate the ways in which families try to re-create the commons by relying on social networks for free access to resources. In particular, women's social networks (for example, their kin, affines, friends, or religious associates) seem to play an important role. This paper calls attention to the need to better understand women's changing roles in pastoral governance and production and the implications these new roles have for women's well-being and for pastoralism in the face of fragmentation.

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Section: Diversificationmentioning

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Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation

Archambault

2016

Int J Commons

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“…Indeed, to attribute weight loss to one named cause would ignore the holistic conception of bodily health for many Maasai. The contested language surrounding the identification of HIV as a distinct disease highlights some of the issues implicit in analyses of data generated by large-scale survey data such as the Demographic and Health Surveys, and HIV awareness-raising campaigns in this linguistic setting (May andMcCabe 2004, Coast 2006). In the current study it emerged through discussion, both as part of the individual questionnaires and the FGDs that those individuals with higher levels of education preferred to use the Swahili term ukimwi to avoid confusion with the broader group of diseases associated with biitia.…”

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Wasting semen: Context and condom use among the Maasai

Coast

2007

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…Men migrated predominantly from the surrounding Arusha region, the longest distance to rural home was estimated at 250km. May & McCabe (2004) suggest that young Maasai men migrate in order to acquire the necessary wealth to marry. Migration for work in the rapidly expanding precious stones mining sector has been documented (Clift, Anemona, Watson-Jones, Kanga, Ndeki, Changalucha, Gavyole & Ross, 2003).…”

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“…Maasai tend to have low levels of HIV/AIDS knowledge (Coast, 2003;Kulzer, 2001), with highly contested language used to describe HIV (Coast, 2003;May & McCabe, 2004). The KiSwahili for HIV is ukimwi.…”

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“…This study focuses on the Maasai, an East African pastoralist population undergoing the same general process of diversification of rural livelihoods that is taking place across sub-Saharan Africa (Bryceson, 1999;Coast, 2002;Ellis, 2000;Iliya and Swindell, 1997;Fratkin, 2001). A recent, but very rapidly growing, rural-urban migration stream for paid employment has been identified (Homewood, Coast & Thompson, 2005;May & McCabe, 2004). The analysis presents results from a comparison with individual-level analyses of two male Maasai populations in Tanzania, one (composed of recent rural-urban migrants) in an urban area and one in a rural area.…”

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Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: Rural–urban migrants in Tanzania

Coast

2006

Social Science & Medicine

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Migration is an important process of change for rural populations in developing countries. Migration is a primary cause of behaviour change -by their very act of migrating, migrants are different from those who do not migrate. The focus of the current study is male rural-urban migration in Tanzania and its interaction with sexual behaviour.The analysis presents results from a comparison with individual-level analyses of two populations, one (composed of recent rural-urban migrants) in an urban area and one in a rural area. Detailed migration histories (n=96 rural-urban migrants) and in-depth interviews (n=96 rural-urban migrants, n=51 rural residents) form the basis of the study. Three key research questions are addressed: How does the sexual behaviour of migrants differ from that of rural residents? How do HIV knowledge levels vary between rural-urban migrants and rural residents? What factors are associated with either intentions of behaviour change or reported behaviour? The results are counter-intuitive: rural-urban migrants -both married and unmarried -are not having sex in town. Despite limited understanding of the nature of HIV, the migrant population studied here regulates its behaviour in a way that reflects local understandings of the disease. This finding it important, not least because it challenges the view that HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is largely transmitted to rural areas by return migrants. Maasai rural-urban migrants in Tanzania -both married and unmarried -are not having sex in town. The policy and service provision implications of the results are explored.Abstract word count: 241

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City Work in a Time of AIDS: Maasai Labor Migration in Tanzania

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Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation

Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation

Wasting semen: Context and condom use among the Maasai

Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: Rural–urban migrants in Tanzania

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