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020 _a9781003033820
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024 7 _a10.4324/9781003033820
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041 0 _aeng
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072 7 _aRGC
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720 1 _aSunam, Ramesh
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245 0 0 _aTransnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal
_bThe Remittance Village
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource (140 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aRoutledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies
506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _aThrough 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.
540 _aAll rights reserved
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aHuman geography
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653 _aagrarian
653 _aBrain drain
653 _aglobal south
653 _aland reform
653 _apoverty
653 _arural
653 _atransnational
793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37429
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