Eaters Of The Dry Season: Circular Labor Migration In The West African Sahel

by David Rain

Overview

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429980510
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/13/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

David Rain

Table of Contents

Preface -- The Changing World of Cin Rani -- The Walked-Across Land -- Land-Use Change Along the Environmental Margin -- From Caravan to Bush Taxi -- A Population in Motion -- Migrants' Livelihoods -- Rural Community Perspectives -- Walking into the Next Century

Editorial Reviews

Geographer Rain served with the US Peace Corps in Niger in the middle 1980s and demonstrates that the relentless human mobility in the region long predates modern highways and airports. He describes how, every year after the crops are in, hundred of thousands of men and women leave their villages to work in the informal sectors of West African cities. The point, he says, is to conserve the food that has to last the village a year. He finds in their behavior a foreshadow of how poor people around the world will respond to global warming in the next century. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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