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Labour Migration: An Option for Peasant Livelihood?

In: Making a Living in Rural Sudan

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  • Elke Grawert

    (University of Bremen)

Abstract

Migration comprises a multitude of physical movements in space and time. It is a process which is spatially subdivided into sending areas, routes of migration and receiving areas. With regard to the motivations of migrants, three types of migration can be distinguished: enforced migration, voluntary migration and distress migration. The first is decided upon by external powers. Resettlement programmes of governments for instance fall into this category. The second is the outcome of a decision-making process of migrants and their families. It refers to labour migration and to migration for the purposes of education or marriage. The third type of migration is caused by deprivation. In this case the decision to migrate is made in order to escape from an environment which is no longer felt to guarantee survival. Migration due to drought, crop failure and famine is, among other causes, covered by this category (Sharp et al., 1991, p. 2). This classification is of course a theoretical one. In practice motivations overlap and the border lines between the categories are vague.1

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  • Elke Grawert, 1998. "Labour Migration: An Option for Peasant Livelihood?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Making a Living in Rural Sudan, chapter 6, pages 117-151, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26804-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26804-7_6
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