The Migration Experience in AfricaJonathan Baker, Tade Akin Aina In this book different authors investigates the range of the migration experience in Africa. Because of the variety and complexity of the reasons which surround and underpin why African populations are so mobile, this volume adopts an eclectic approach which illustrates the diversity of theoretical positions, as well as methodological and analytical trends. Examples of the great breadth and richness of empirical insights into human migrations in the contemporary African context are also given. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Migrations in Contemporary Africa | 29 |
List of tables | 37 |
Internal NonMetropolitan Migration and the Development | 41 |
Poverty Environmental Stress and Culture as Factors | 54 |
Rural Households as Producers | 65 |
Sources of nonfarm income among rural households | 69 |
Average and marginal propensities to save for rural households | 77 |
School leavers at different levels 19811990 | 168 |
Location of sample at the time of interview | 174 |
Pastoralist Migration to Small Towns in Africa | 181 |
Towns and ethnic groups mentioned in the text | 190 |
The New Nomads | 197 |
The annual refugee population in Africa 19591993 | 198 |
Significant populations of internally displaced | 200 |
The annual number of African refugees repatriating versus in exile | 212 |
Migration in Africa | 87 |
Literature sources on migrations in Africa by theme | 88 |
List of maps | 102 |
refugee stocks 1987 1988 1989 | 103 |
Forgotten Places Abandoned Places | 109 |
The Geography of Apartheid South Africa | 113 |
Migration and Recent Economic and Environmental Change | 122 |
Census sources of migration data | 124 |
Kenya 1979 | 126 |
The Small Town as a Retirement Centre | 149 |
Migration status by location and gender percentage | 154 |
Household size and composition by location and gender | 161 |
The Dilemmas Facing Kenya School Leavers | 167 |
Social Differentiation Conflicts and RuralUrban Interaction | 220 |
Distribution of village households in three groups | 223 |
Migration in Ethiopia and the Role of the State | 234 |
Unemployment rates for selected small towns in Ethiopia 1984 | 239 |
Gender and Migration in Africa | 257 |
109 | 258 |
Contact with family elsewhere among women migrants | 277 |
Women in RuralUrban Migration | 289 |
Age distribution | 297 |
The Girls of Nyovuuru | 303 |
NonMetropolitan Migration in Botswana | 321 |
Biographical Notes | 339 |
Common terms and phrases
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