Download or read book Migratory Labor in West Africa written by Michael P. E. Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hoe And Wage written by Dennis D. Cordell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an unusual source a retrospective survey of migration from 1900 to 1975 this book traces the history of internal and international labor migration in colonial and contemporary Burkina Faso, the West African coast, and other parts of Africa. Interviews with returned migrants elicited information about age, matrimonial status, motives for migrating, employment, destinations, residence, and motives for returning. The survey, which includes data on nearly one hundred thousand migrants and on 1.5 million instances of migration, offers a uniquely African perspective on migration in the region
Download or read book General Labour History of Africa written by Stefano Bellucci and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Download or read book Eaters Of The Dry Season written by David Rain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkable blend of geography, demography, sociology, development economics, history, cultural anthropology, ecology, politics, sharia (Muslim religious law), and government policies.... This book dispels many misconceptions and is an education in itself." Choice
Download or read book Urbanization and Migration in West Africa written by Hilda Kuper and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Download or read book Migrant Laborers written by Sharon Stichter and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1985 book surveys the literature on labor migration in east, west and southern Africa and interprets it from a political economy perspective.
Download or read book Outsourcing African Labor written by Jeffrey Gunn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity with European trade on the Kru Coast (modern Liberia) from at least the sixteenth century played a fundamental role in their decision to expand their wage earning opportunities under contract with the British. The establishment of Freetown in 1792 enabled the Kru to engage in systematized work for British merchants, ship captains, and naval officers. Kru workers increased their migration to Freetown establishing what appears to be their first permanent labouring community beyond their homeland on the Kru Coast. Their community in Freetown known as Krutown provided a readily available labour pool and ensured their regular employment on board British commercial ships and Royal Navy vessels circumnavigating the Atlantic and beyond. In the process, the Kru established a network of Krutowns and community settlements in many Atlantic ports including Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Ascension Island, Cape of Good Hope, and in the British Caribbean in Demerara and Port of Spain. Outsourcing African Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces. As the Kru formed permanent and transient working communities around the Atlantic and in the British Caribbean, they underwent several phases of social, political, and economic innovation, which ultimately overcame a decline in employment in their homeland on the Kru Coast by the end of the nineteenth century by increasing employment in their diaspora. There were unique features of the Kru migrant labour force that characterized all phases of its expansion. The migration was virtually entirely male, and at a time when slavery was widespread and the slave trade was subjected to the abolition campaign of the British Navy, Kru workers were free with an expertise in manning seaborne craft and porterage. Kru carried letters from previous captains as testimonies of their reliability and work ethic or they worked under the supervision of experienced workers who effectively served as references for employment. They worked for contractual periods of between six months and five years for which they were paid wages. The Kru thereby stand out as an anomaly in the history of Atlantic trade when compared with the much larger diasporas of enslaved Africans.
Download or read book Migrants Borders and Global Capitalism written by Hannah Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain labour migration. It shows how global capitalism regulates different stages of the process within an interconnected system of economic dispossession, the construction of an illegal status, border control, labour exploitation and processes of underdevelopment. This is summarised as a regime of ‘unfree labour mobility’. Combined with structural and historical approaches, this book is based on ethnographic research. It incorporates those who are left behind, those who decide to stay, migrants who fail and those who are on the move, alongside clustered migrant communities in Senegal, Mauritania and Spain. The book’s panoramic approach shows how West African ‘step-wise’ journeys to Europe by land and sea sees competing territorial and economic policies regulating an unstable and unpredictable trajectory, creating ‘illegal’ labour through dual logics of border security and selective labour mobility. This book demonstrates that the diverse channels through which people migrate in the modern era are mediated by European states and labour markets, which utilise border regimes to control labour and be globally competitive. The themes and patterns that emerge, in their context of inter-generational change, present a challenge to the accepted wisdom about the individual and household dynamics of labour migration. This book is of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, politics, security, development, economics, and sociology.
Download or read book A Survey on Migration Policies in West Africa written by Alexandre Devillard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenge of Labour Migration Flows Between West Africa and the Maghreb written by Aderanti Adepoju and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses labour migration policy challenges in ECOWAS with an emphasis on recent patterns and trends in inter-regional labour migration between West Africa and the Maghreb, as well as on existing challenges related both to the vulnerable situation of regular and irregular migrant workers in North African transit and/or destination countries and to the prevention of abusive practices.
Download or read book Legislation on Migrant Workers in West Africa written by Hamidou Ba and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the national reports on the international migration legislation conducted in six West African countries.
Download or read book Bush Bound written by Paolo Gaibazzi and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Download or read book Modern Migrations in Western Africa written by Samir Amin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with studies of migration from census and other data, variations in scale, distance and duration of various types of migration, social relations of migrant populations with their home areas and their host communities, and expectations and valuation of migrants concerning rural and urban life. It also examines interrelations between levels of migration, labour supply, wage rates and unemployment in urban centres, the impact of different types of migration on the national economy and economic planning and governemnt measures and conflicting interests of the labour supplying and receiving countries. The introduction analyses the main economic and political factors and the socio-economic consequences and problems brought about by migrations in and between territories.
Download or read book Work and Community Among West African Migrant Workers Since the Nineteenth Century written by Diane Frost and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frost reclaims the forgotten history of a group of West Africans, the Kru, who as ship’s laborers and seafarers contributed greatly to British colonial trade with West Africa. "Ms. Frost provides us with an interesting account of this exceptionally mobile group of Africans... she is able to connect the past with the present not only by using archival material but also recently conducted interviews."—International Migration Review
Download or read book Willing Migrants written by François Manchuelle and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of labor migration of the Soninke ethnic group of West Africa. Their historical employment in the French merchant marine set the stage for their larger migration to France, and today 85% of Black African migrants to France are from this ethnic group. Analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and interviews with Soninke migrants show that these migrations were driven by a search for improved economic conditions and have much in common with European and American migrations. This conclusion refutes theoretical arguments in Africanist literature that have stressed the role of the colonial state in forcing migration through violence and taxation. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Migrant Workers in West Africa with Special Reference to Nigeria and Ghana written by Yaa Frempomaa Yeboah and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Migration a Development Factor written by International Institute for Labour Studies and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many workers relocating to Europe, African countries face the challenge of achieving growth and development while much of their labor force is leaving. This book focuses on Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunisia, examining the many ways that migration—combined with sound labor markets—can better support development. It addresses topics such as the effects of the global crisis on migrant workers and their families; reducing "brain drain" resulting from the emigration of skilled migrants; and creating better synergies between migration, employment, and development.
