ISBN-13: 9780367157104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 400 str.
ISBN-13: 9780367157104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 400 str.
Based on an unusual source a retrospective survey of migration from 1900 to 1975 this book traces the history of internal and international labor migration in colonial and contemporary Burkina Faso, the West African coast, and other parts of Africa. Interviews with returned migrants elicited information about age, matrimonial status, motives for migrating, employment, destinations, residence, and motives for returning. The survey, which includes data on nearly one hundred thousand migrants and on 1.5 million instances of migration, offers a uniquely African perspective on migration in the region
Hoe and Wage is a social history of migration as perceived and remembered by men and women who moved from Burkina Faso since 1900. It traces the history of international labor migration in colonial and contemporary Burkina Faso, the West African coast, and other parts of Africa.