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dc.contributor.authorSunam, Ramesh
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-02T14:44:47Z
dc.date.available2021-02-02T14:44:47Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20210202_9781000060782_46
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46438
dc.description.abstractThrough 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geographyen_US
dc.subject.otheragrarian
dc.subject.otherBrain drain
dc.subject.otherglobal south
dc.subject.otherland reform
dc.subject.otherpoverty
dc.subject.otherrural
dc.subject.othertransnational
dc.titleTransnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal
dc.title.alternativeThe Remittance Village
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003033820
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.hasChapterde161a4f-9ad9-4aa9-ab88-d17b6c9d77f9
oapen.relation.hasChapterde161a4f-9ad9-4aa9-ab88-d17b6c9d77f9
oapen.relation.isbn9781003033820
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages140


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