Migrant Labour and Economic Development

Miracle, Marvin P.; Berry, Sara

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041154

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“…Indeed, one of the earliest studies of the economic effect of outmigration, in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), stressed the general impoverishment of social life and the serious nutritional deficiencies that accompanied it (Richards, 1939; see also Wilson, 1941 andMiracle andBerry, 1970: 91 possible or for fear that corv&e assignment would preclude any crops planted from being harvested (Skinner, 1960).…”

Section: Agrarian Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agrarian Responses to Outmigration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mabogunje¹

1989

Population and Development Review

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Section: Agrarian Responsesmentioning

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Agrarian Responses to Outmigration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mabogunje¹

1989

Population and Development Review

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“…In all such cases there is a return back across developmental differ entials, and the question arises as to the impact of such contrary flows (115). Conventional equilibrium theory holds that returnees should bring with them capital and savings which they will invest in ways that promote development because it is reenforced by new skills, ideas, and attitudes that they acquired while working and living abroad (101). But in almost all such cases an thropologists have found that the developmental impact of return migration is negative or at best neutral.…”

Section: Migration and Community Develo P Mentmentioning

confidence: 99%

From the Invisible Hand to Visible Feet: Anthropological Studies of Migration and Development

Kearney¹

1986

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

260

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In a strict sense migration is the movement of people through geographic space. As such, migration's academic home is in a back room of demography, where it does not receive much attention from anthropologists. Instead, most anthropological work on migration takes the form of "migration and _." The topics that fill the blank encompass many fields. For the purposes of this review, as its title indicates, the blank is filled with "development." Contem porary migrants are predominantly workers moving from areas where they were born and raised to others where they can find a higher return for their labor. These spatial differentials in employment opportunities represent lesser and greater levels of economic development. The investigation of migration is thus inextricably associated with issues of development and underdevelop ment. Or as Todaro (151) said, "The causes and consequences of continued internal as well as international migration lie at the heart of the contemporary development problem."A number of developmental issues have emerged in the migration litera ture, most notably relationships between migration and urbanization, in dustrialization, agriculture, family structure, gender roles, and ideology. This review concentrates on ethnographic studies of these issues and assesses the resulting theoretical and substantive advances. As such these studies contrast with macro level research on migration based on aggregate statistical data at regional and national levels.

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“…An increase in productivity flowing from the use of new techniques learned by the migrant and brought back to the home region (Miracle and Berry, 1970;Waters, 1973);…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Continued out-migration generates a situation in which the supplying region finds itself short of labour at critical moments in the production process, which causes the supply of agricultural output to fall. Since the chances of migration are higher amongst the well-educated, intelligent young men, the very people one would expect to make a significant contribution to agricultural output in the home region, this shortage can represent an important cost to the home region (Kuznets, 1965;Miracle and Berry, 1970;Skinner, 1965;Webster, 1979).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Migration to a new area may alter consumption patterns in the home region as migrants are exposed to a different range of commodities in the region to which they go. These preferences are then brought back to the supoplying region on their return (Grasmuck, 1984;Miracle and Berry, 1970). If this "taste transfer" results in a decrease in investment, then this too will 3 be a significant cost.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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