Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines

McKay, Deirdre

doi:10.1080/00167223.2005.10649529

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“…In her work in the Philippines, McKay (2005) found women's migration to be both cause and result of a move from subsistence to intensive commercial agriculture, with remittances capitalizing the transition. In this regard, Gray's recent quantitative study in Ecuador is a helpful addition to the literature, as he separates migration's remittance effect from its labor effect and identifies differences based on the gender of the migrant (Gray 2009).…”

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Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

2010

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Gender shapes the migration-environment association in both origin and destination communities. Using quantitative and qualitative data, we juxtapose these gender dimensions for a labor migrant-sending location of Mexico's southern Yucatán with those for a labor migrant-receiving location in Vermont (USA). We illustrate how in the southern Yucatán, circular transnational migration alters pasture, maize and chili production in a peasant field-forest system. Gender norms condition the land-use decisions of migratory households to keep women out of agricultural fields, but in turn may be modified in unexpected ways. With men's migration, more women assume aspects of land management, including in decisionmaking and supervision of hired farm labor. In comparison, in Vermont a largely male migrant labor force helps maintain an idealized, pastoral landscape with gender deeply embedded in how that labor is constructed and managed.

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Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

2010

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“…Among these studies, several have found evidence of disintensification of agriculture (Zimmerer 1993; Preston et al 1997; Schmook and Radel 2008; Jones 2009; Qin 2010; Robson and Berkes 2011), while others have observed small or zero net effects (Black 1993; Klooster 2003) or intensification through the investment of remittances (McKay 2005; Taylor et al, 2006; De Haas 2006). Three studies have examined Ecuador specifically.…”

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Consequences of out-migration for land use in rural Ecuador

Gray¹,

Bilsborrow²

2014

Land Use Policy

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In rural Ecuador and elsewhere in Latin America, the departure of migrants and the receipt of migrant remittances have led to declining rural populations and increasing cash incomes. It is commonly assumed that these processes will lead to agricultural abandonment and the regrowth of native vegetation, thus undermining traditional livelihoods and providing a boon for biodiversity conservation. However, an increasing number of household-level studies have found mixed and complex effects of out-migration and remittances on agriculture. We advance this literature by using household survey data and satellite imagery from three study areas in rural Ecuador to investigate the effects of migration and remittances on agricultural land use. Multivariate methods are used to disaggregate the effects of migration and remittances, to account for other influences on land use and to correct for the potential endogeneity of migration and remittances. Contrary to common assumptions but consistent with previous studies, we find that migrant departure has a positive effect on agricultural activities that is offset by migrant remittances. These results suggest that rural out-migration alone is not likely to lead to a forest transition in the study areas.

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“…Others have examined the effect of remittances on land use [41,42]. In the context of the Philippines, for example, McKay [43,44] has written of "remittance landscapes", highlighting the way in which the effects of migration can be seen inscribed in the fields of the Ifugao: "Bean gardens can be read as remittance landscapes-they both anticipate remittances and produce the capital needed to go overseas-and are thus tied to the translocal nature of apparently local places" ([43], p. 306). Work in Cambodia has also shown how migration interlocks with farming, reshaping the latter in the process, leading to both a feminization and a geriatrification of farming [45].…”

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How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia

Baird

Fox

2015

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Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of large-scale economic land concessions for plantations in Laos and Cambodia. These studies have variously illustrated that concessions frequently result in serious negative impacts on local people and the environment, often leading to dramatic transformations of landscapes and livelihoods. As important as this research has been, these studies have largely focused on the immediate impacts of the "enclosure" process associated with gaining access to land by investors. In this study we take a different approach, investigating the implications of large-scale land concessions in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia with regard to places outside of actual concession areas, both within the countries where the concessions are located and beyond. These links have been referred to as "teleconnections" or "telecoupling", and adopting a "telecoupling" approach allows us to focus on particular relations between land-use change in one location and land-use change elsewhere, either nearby or distant, as the result of large-scale plantation development, both during the early plantation development period, and later when plantations are productive. It also provides opportunities to engage with Land Change Science (LCS) through Political Ecology (PE). OPEN ACCESSLand 2015, 4 437

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Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines

Cited by 76 publications

References 11 publications

Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

Consequences of out-migration for land use in rural Ecuador

How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia

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