Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal

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...

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Autor principal: Sunam, Ramesh
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description 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 recommended reading for policy makers, international development agencies and I/NGOs working on rural development in the Global South.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-374292025-03-23T00:04:03Z Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal Sunam, Ramesh agrarian Brain drain global south land reform poverty rural transnational thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography 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 recommended reading for policy makers, international development agencies and I/NGOs working on rural development in the Global South. 2021-02-02T14:44:47Z 2020 book ONIX_20210202_9781000060782_46 ONIX_20210202_9781000060782_46 OCN: 1141944961 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46438 9781003033820 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37429 eng Routledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003033820 10.4324/9781003033820 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Chapter 3 More than the soil Chapter 3 More than the soil 9781003033820 Routledge 140 open access
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Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal
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