UID:
edocfu_9961427110202883
Format:
1 online resource (141 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-00-303382-2
,
1-000-06086-1
,
1-003-03382-2
Series Statement:
Routledge-WIAS interdisciplinary studies
Content:
"Through the prism of a Nepali remittance village, this book critically examines poverty and livelihood dynamics remade through transnational labour migration and remittances, and their interrelationships with land, rural labour and agriculture. The concept of the Remittance Village emphasises rural people's transnational mobilities as a key feature of contemporary dynamics in many parts of the Global South, which are reconfiguring rural social, economic and ecological textures. Sunam challenges complacent linear narratives that assume new opportunities such as transnational migration and remittances provide better pathways for the rural poor to come out of poverty, as well as narratives that understate the importance of land and farming for the rural poor. He demonstrates both that new opportunities are inaccessible for many poor people, and that accessing these opportunities often engenders increased precarity and vulnerability. In the remittance village, he finds that even those accessing new opportunities are successful only when their household member(s) are simultaneously engaged in in-situ (non-)agricultural activities. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and students from a range of interdisciplinary backgrounds, including human geography, anthropology of development, and sociology. It is also a recommended reading for policy makers, international development agencies and I/NGOs working on rural development in the Global South"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The remittance village -- Key poverty and livelihood debates in the Global South -- Pathways out of poverty -- Pathways into poverty -- Beyond reinventing the wheel -- Research process -- A road map to the book -- Note -- Chapter 2: Texture of rural livelihoods and poverty -- Socio-economic geography of Panchayan -- Caste relations -- Stories of livelihood trajectory -- Escaping poverty -- Remaining poor -- Staying well-off -- Falling into poverty -- Poverty dynamics: stepping up or stepping down? -- Key drivers of poverty dynamics -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 3: More than the soil: Land remains a rural pivot -- Resurgence of the land-poverty debate -- Patterns of land ownership -- Linking land to rural poverty and prosperity -- Land accumulation and dispossession -- Recent mechanisms of access to land -- Enhanced access -- Land enclosure -- Misplaced land reform activism -- Access to forests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Mobile labour, remittance and agrarian change -- Exit from agriculture? -- Rural agrarian context of Nepal -- Agrarian patterns and poverty dynamics -- Deactivation of agriculture -- Agricultural labouring -- Young people as future farmers -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 5: Rural non-agricultural pathways -- Non-farm wage labour -- Framing workers' choices -- Small businesses and petty trade -- Government employment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Transnational labour migration, remittances and livelihood dynamics -- From lahures to transnational labourers -- Patterns of migration in Panchayan -- Poverty effects of migration -- Escaping poverty or treading water? -- Reproducing poverty -- Beyond financial remittances.
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Labour and land relations -- Social relations: family, caste and gender -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Joining the dots -- Livelihood change amidst complex agrarian dynamics -- (Precarious) non-agrarian pathways -- In support of diversified livelihoods -- Revisiting policy narratives -- References -- Index.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-47156-6
Language:
English
