Urban Migration in India and Africa

Eames, Edwin Hubert; Schwab, William B.

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“…Migration becomes a "way of life," and in contradiction to the claim that the city will destroy the village, Rowe finds that "in economic terms at least, the city makes the continuance of the North Indian village possible." The typical African who leaves his tribal area to seek work in town returns after a varying period "whether he has realized his goals or not" (Eames-Schwab, 1964). Elkan (1960: 134-38; also 1967) observed "perpetual flow between town and country" in Uganda,where the worker views his life "as a whole and is well aware that his income consists not solely, or even necessarily mainly, of wages and other benefits of employment, but also of the income which his family draws from farming in the countryside."…”

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“…Kuper (1965: 120-22) points out the multiplicity and sociological subtleties of urban tribalism in comparing research on the Copperbelt, West Africa, and South Africa. The innovative, even protean possibilities of urban tribalism enthusiastically described for West Africa by Little (1965) must be set against the situation of migrants in Southern Rhodesia who are residentially segregated in towns and primarily confined to unskilled labor (Eames-Schwab, 1964). The "encapsulated' rural tribalism of "Red' migrants to East London, South Africa, contrasts with the experimentalism of "School" migrants (Mayer, 1963) .…”

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Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Morse

1971

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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It has for years been accepted that as Latin American countries urbanize and industrialize, the proportion of people employed in tertiary (“services”) categories relative to those in secondary (manufacturing, construction) increases more swiftly than in the nineteenth-century industrial countries. This is usually taken to mean that urbanization here “outruns” industrialization, that people are released from precarious rural occupations faster than stable secondary-sector jobs are created for them. The situation is aggravated by the introduction of advanced technology that allows high worker-output ratios and by the lack of possibilities for migration abroad such as relieved Europe of 55 million “excess” persons in the period 1750-1939. Table 5 shows that although the per cent of Latin Americans working in factories more than doubled in the period 1925-60, thus increasing much more sharply than the per cent of city dwellers, the total share employed in manufacturing barely increased at all—and in fact shaded off in the 1950s—because of a relative drop in artisans.

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Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Morse

1971

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Morse

1971

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Although this paper is a sequel to an earlier review of Latin American urban research (1965b), the volume and sophistication of work in the urban field during the past five years have made it advisable to limit the number of themes addressed, to dwell on complementary or discrepant approaches to certain central issues, and to suggest comparative perspectives. The first section, restricted to Spanish America, attempts to clarify some colonial antecedents of contemporary phenomena and is even less systematic than the other four sections as a research inventory. Attention to nineteenth-century developments is limited to references in Section V. The review of contemporary themes is weighted toward anthropological, sociological, and general institutional matters; the author has no credentials for prowling the arctic realms of economics, political behaviorism, and geographic place theory.

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Migration in India: A Review

Singh

1992

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Migration in India has received increased scholarly attention in the past forty years, assisted by additional categories of data collected through the National Census. Considering the volume of both internal and international migration, the Indian population is relatively immobile. Most movements occur locally; 60 percent of internal migration is rural-rural on an intra-district level, consisting primarily of women moving with their husbands after marriage. Next in importance is the rural-urban migration of males seeking economic gain. The few studies done on migrants' characteristics show migration to be highly selective of age, sex, marital status, education, occupation and caste. The specific role of poverty in causing migration is still under debate. Key areas for further research include a greater focus on immobility; the social and demographic consequences of migration on sending and receiving communities; and the social, economic and demographic behavior of the migrants.

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Urban Migration in India and Africa

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Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Migration in India: A Review

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