Full Description
Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with studies of migration from census and other data, variations in scale, distance and duration of various types of migration, social relations of migrant populations with their home areas and their host communities, and expectations and valuation of migrants concerning rural and urban life. It also examines interrelations between levels of migration, labour supply, wage rates and unemployment in urban centres, the impact of different types of migration on the national economy and economic planning and governemnt measures and conflicting interests of the labour supplying and receiving countries. The introduction analyses the main economic and political factors and the socio-economic consequences and problems brought about by migrations in and between territories.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction 1. Le phénomène migratoire danls L'Afrique de l'Ouest contemporaine: nature et definition 2. L'ampleur du phénomène migratoire en Afrique de l'ouest: quelques indications 3. Le mécanisme de la migration: la méthodologie 4. Le phénomène migratoire, élément du processus de prolétarisation 5. Les 'effets' des migrations, critique de l'analyse en termes de 'coûts-bénéfices' 6. Autres types de migrations 7. Les migrations et le problème national 8. Les résultats du colloque English version 1. The Migratory Phenomenon in Contemporary West Africa: Nature and Definition 2. The Magnitude of the Migratory Phenomenon in West Africa: some indications 3. The Mechanism of Migration: Methodology 4. The Migratory Phenomenon, element of the process of proletarization 5. The 'effects' of migration, criticism of 'cost-benefits' analysis 6. Other Types of Migration 7. Migration and the National Problem 8. The Results of the Seminar Part 2: Special Studies 1. Rural-Urban socio-Economic Links: the Example of Migratnts in South-west Nigeria 2. The Effects of the Expulsion of Migrant Workers on Ghana's economy, with particular reference to the Cocoa Industry 3. L'impact de la migration sur la société villageoise: approche sociologique (exemple Togo-Ghana) 4. Regulations Governing the Employment of Non-Nationals in West Africa 5. La Migration contibue-t-elle au développment des zones 'retardées'? 6. Mesures gourvernemntales et/ou interêts divergents des pays exportateurs de main d'oeuvre et des pays hôtes: Haute-Volta et Côte d'Ivoire 7. Les relations entre les hommes et les femmes et les migrations des Zarma 8. L'émigration sarakollaise du Guidimaka vers la France 9. Population Movements and Land Shortages in the Sokoto Close-Settled Zone, Nigeria 10. Migration, Urbanization and National Development in Nigeria 11. Development and In-Migration in Upper Volta 12. Migration and the Opportunity Structure: A Ghanaian Case-Study 13. Some Sociological Aspects of Modern Migration in Western Africa 14. External Migration in Togo 15. Migration des pionniers mourid wolof vers les terres neuves: role de l'économique et du religieux 16. Réalités et effets de l'émigration massive des Voltaïques dans le contexte de l'Afrique occidentale
