Land Investment And Migration

Author : Camilla Toulmin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192594297

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Land, Investment, and Migration by Camilla Toulmin Pdf

How do people survive and thrive in the uncertain and risk-prone Sahel? Land, Investment, and Migration seeks to answer this question through a long-term study of the people of Dlonguébougou in Central Mali. It uses a combination of infographics, satellite images, interviews, and survey data to present the strategies and fortunes of individuals and their families in this region over 35 years. In the early 1980s Camilla Toulmin spent two years in Dlonguébougou. She has since revisited to explore how climate change, population growth, new technologies, and land-grabs have been affecting the livelihoods and prospects of local people since. Land, Investment, and Migration: Thirty-five Years of Village Life in Mali brings together her findings. A trebling in population, unpredictable rainfall, and the arrival of Chinese investment have forced people into new ways of making ends meet and building up wealth - some doing much better than others. This book presents the search for new cash incomes, the shift of people from village to town, and the erosion of collective solidarity at household and village levels. Land, Investment, and Migration presents a mixed picture of a changing society. It shows the vibrancy of the village economy, rapid uptake of mobile phones and solar panels, and increased migration. It also shows the persistence of large family structures which offer some protection from the risks that many villagers face.

Author : Sara Vigil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000546514

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Land Grabbing and Migration in a Changing Climate by Sara Vigil Pdf

This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing, and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia. While the impacts of environmental change on migration and of environmental discourses on land grabs have received increased attention, the role of both environmental and migration narratives in shaping migration by modifying access to natural resources has remained under-explored. Using a variegated geopolitical ecology framework and a comparative global ethnographic approach, this book analyses the power of mainstream adaptation and security frameworks and how they impact the lives of marginalised and vulnerable communities in Senegal and Cambodia. Findings across the cases show how environmental and migration narratives, linked to adaptation and security discourses, have been deployed advertently or inadvertently to justify land capture, leading to interventions that often increase, rather than alleviate, the very pressures that they intend to address. The interrelations between these issues are inherent to the tensions that exist, in different contexts and at different times, between capital accumulation and political legitimation. The findings of the book point to the urgency for researchers and policymakers to address the structural causes, and not the symptoms, of both environmental destruction and forced migration. It shows how acting upon environmental change, land grabs, and migration in isolated or binary manners can increase, rather than alleviate, pressures on those most socio-environmentally vulnerable. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on the topics of land and resource grabbing and environmental change and migration. The book will also be of interest to those analysing political ecology transitions in Africa and Asia, as well as to those interested in novel theoretical and methodological frameworks.

Author : Kerstin Rosenow-Williams,François Gemenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317380276

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Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration by Kerstin Rosenow-Williams,François Gemenne Pdf

Over the past decade, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly focused their efforts on the plight of environmental migrants in both industrialized and developing countries. However, to date very few studies have analysed the influence and rhetoric of advocacy groups in the debates on environmental migration. Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration fills this lacuna by drawing together and examining the related themes of climate change and environmental degradation, migration and organizational studies to provide a fresh perspective on their increasing relevance. In order to assess the role of IOs and NGOs in the environmental migration discourse and to understand their interaction and their ways of addressing the topic, the book contains a wide-range of contributions covering the perspectives of organizational sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, lawyers and practitioners. The chapters are organized thematically around the perspectives of key actors in the area of environmental migration, including IOs, courts and advocacy groups. The geographically diverse and interdisciplinary range of contributions makes this volume an essential foundational text for organizational responses to environmental migration. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of migration studies, international relations, organizational sociology, refugee law and policy, and development studies.

Author : Rob Cole,Grace Wong,Maria Brockhaus
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504963

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Reworking the land by Rob Cole,Grace Wong,Maria Brockhaus Pdf

This paper reviews the literature on migration within and from rural areas of Southeast Asia to examine the effects of redistribution of labor and remittances on livelihoods and land-use practices, as well as contexts in which migration drives, yet is also driven by, social and environmental change. Gaps in the literature and areas of contention and debate are highlighted, informing an agenda for further research. Many studies approach ways in which labor dynamics and remittances to rural villages affect agricultural productivity among migrant-sending households, or compensate for lost labor by supporting household consumption, but the reality is often found to be a combination of both on the basis of immediate priorities. Perceived returns to investments in both monetary and labor terms are critical to how migration influences household land-use decisions, while initially profitable investments and conducive local conditions are seen to enable successive enhancement and diversification of livelihoods. Overall, the expansive literature relating to migration and development often alludes to, yet stops short of, directly examining migration and remittance effects on land and forest cover change. The literature on land-use change often overlooks or briefly references migration, but migration rarely forms the central point of enquiry. Understanding of the linkages between migration and land-use can be strengthened through spatially situated studies in different geographical settings. Such studies would be better positioned to inform policies relating to land-use, agriculture and forestry in rural regions of Southeast Asia, where multi-local livelihoods are increasingly entwined with globalized processes, including those driving environmental changes that such policies seek to govern.

Author : Dallas Rogers,Sin Yee Koh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351265782

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The Globalisation of Real Estate by Dallas Rogers,Sin Yee Koh Pdf

Individual foreign investment in residential real estate by new middle-class and super-rich investors is re-emerging as a key issue in academic, policy and public debates around the world. At its most abstract, global real estate is increasingly thought of as a liquid asset class that is targeted by foreign individual investors who are seeking to diversify their investment portfolios. But foreign investors are also motivated by intergenerational familial security, transnational migration strategies and short-term educational plans, which are all closely entwined with global real estate investment. Government and local public responses to the latest manifestation of global real estate investment have taken different forms. These range from pro-foreign investment, primarily justified on geopolitical and macro-economic grounds, to anti-foreign investment for reasons such as mitigating public dissent and protecting the local housing market. Within this changing geopolitical context, this book offers a diverse range of case studies from Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia, Australia and Korea. It will be of interest to academics, policymakers and university students who are interested in the globalisation of local real estate. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Housing Policy.

Author : Russell King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317524595

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Return Migration and Regional Economic Problems by Russell King Pdf

This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind. International in scope, the book includes chapters on return migration in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Jamaica, Algeria and the Middle East.

Author : Dilip Ratha,Sanket Mohapatra,Caglar Ozden,Sonia Plaza,William Shaw,Abede Shimeles
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821387184

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Leveraging Migration for Africa by Dilip Ratha,Sanket Mohapatra,Caglar Ozden,Sonia Plaza,William Shaw,Abede Shimeles Pdf

This book seeks to fill knowledge gaps on migration, remittances and diaspora in Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:927837898

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All about Land Investment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rachel Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134033782

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Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China by Rachel Murphy Pdf

This book examines labour migration in China, focusing in particular on the social dimensions, exploring important issues including poverty alleviation, inequality, social insurance, health and education, and the role of NGOs. It considers the impact of changing government policy, which has made social issues more central to national development policies.

Author : Julius Issac
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136228131

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Economics of Migration by Julius Issac Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Pohle, Agnes
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783862195374

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Remittances, Farm Investments, Land Use, and Water Consumption: by Pohle, Agnes Pdf

The research presented in this book assesses the effects of migrants’ remittances on farm investments, focusing on the case of Kerala, India. The results indicate that remittances significantly enhance farm investments, whereby households’ farm-related spending priorities are labour, fertilizer, and starting or extending rubber plantations. However, remittances have significantly negative impacts on land use change overall. Further, the results indicate that farm investments contribute to reduce water consumption because farmers tend to substitute irrigated crops by rain-fed crops. Although remittances cannot solve the structural problems of the farm sector, they provide farm households with capital and thus facilitate transitions or improve the production of existing crops. The study emphasizes the importance of remittances for mitigating credit constraints and facilitating investments, thus supporting the New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM). At the same time it draws attention to potential negative implications for the natural environment.

Author : Nick Gallent,Iqbal Hamiduddin,Meri Juntti,Nicola Livingstone,Phoebe Stirling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811307706

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New Money in Rural Areas by Nick Gallent,Iqbal Hamiduddin,Meri Juntti,Nicola Livingstone,Phoebe Stirling Pdf

This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their motivations before undertaking an analysis of the place impacts of investment, viewing ‘new money’ as a potential development opportunity, delivering a variety of outcomes for local landscapes and communities. After providing introductory insights into rural land investment and the measurement of associated impacts, ten case studies – from different European locations – explore actual investment motives and local impacts. The book concludes with a synthesis of investment experiences and an assessment of the transformative changes brought to rural areas by the flow of new money.

Author : Michael R. Carter,Yang Yao
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Agricultura
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Specialization Without Regret by Michael R. Carter,Yang Yao Pdf

In China, where collectives own farmland but farmers may hold "use rights" to the land, a case can be made for a property rights system with incomplete security of tenure but with strong transfer rights, which permit "specialization without regret"-- so farmers can recoup the value of an investment even if they exit farming.

Author : Luin Goldring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173024131212

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Development and Migration by Luin Goldring Pdf

Author : Ton van Naerssen,Ernst Spaan,Annelies Zoomers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135896300

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Global Migration and Development by Ton van Naerssen,Ernst Spaan,Annelies Zoomers Pdf

This volume addresses the question: to what extent and under what conditions does international migration contribute to local and national development?