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Writing from detailed empirical studies of migration in South and South-east Asia and Africa, the contributors to this issue provide illustrations of the importance and normality of migration in rural life. The studies show that the relationship between migration and rural change is complex and context-specific. Migration has often increased inequality, but in many cases also supported vulnerable livelihoods. Much depends on the social processes at work, the ways in which identities shift through migration and how gendered ideologies of work are deployed and change. Labour mobility usually serves the interests of capital, in ensuring labour supply, and also, often, in dividing workers. However, the power of capital relative to labour is contingent. Explores ways in which public policies can support migrants by making migration less costly and more secure, through reducing discrimination and enhancing access to health care and other services. (Original abstract - amended)

More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia. The underlying premise is that rural lives and livelihoods in this region have undergone fundamental change. No longer can we assume that rural livelihoods are founded on agriculture; nor can we assume that people envisage their futures in terms of farming. The inter-penetration of the rural and urban, and the degree to which rural people migrate between rural and urban areas, and shift from agriculture to non-agriculture, raises fundamental questions ab.

The atlas is a tool that is both accessible and indispensable for understanding rural change in Africa. This original tool relates data on demographics, urbanization and resource use with spatial and economic dynamics, both on a continental level and through several regional examples, to provide a novel inventory of rural restructuring in North and sub-Saharan Africa. Using indicators, maps and charts, the atlas reveals the dynamics at play within the rural world in Africa and territorial restructuring on the continent. In particular, it serves as a reminder of how population and urban growth processes and the development of communication links have substantially modified the nature of African rural areas, even if some regions are still isolated. The increased density of links between town and country is the sign of a new type of territoriality that should be recognized and serve as a framework for development policies, which are currently a hostage to their compartmentalized sectoral visions. Agricultural, environmental management health and education, urban development and infrastructure policies need to be restructured within territorial approaches, which are the only ones capable of responding to the challenges faced by the continent: creating jobs for the growing numbers of young people; diversifying economic activity ; rebalancing territories to prevent excessive growth of capital cities; preserving natural resources. The aim of the atlas is to fuel the debate about the main regional and continental development issues. It provides a reference situation for future work that could serve to fine-tune analyses on a regional and thematic level and identify the main changes. It will be supplemented and updated regularly. It is published jointly by CIRAD and NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development, a technical body of the African Union), with financial support from the AFD, and fits in with NEPAD's Rural Futures programme. The programme plans to support territorial dynamics and structural change for sustainable development of the continent.

This introductory essay & collection concerns the social processes within which migration for manual work is located & are influenced by. Writing from detailed empirical studies of migration in South & Southeast Africa, the contributors provide illustrations of the importance & normality of migration in rural life. The studies show that the relationship between migration & rural change is complex & context-specific. Migration has often increased inequality, but in many cases also supported vulnerable livelihoods. Much depends on the social processes at work, the ways in which identities shift through migration, & how gendered ideologies of work are deployed & change. Labor mobility usually serves the interests of capital, not only in ensuring labor supply, but also, often in dividing workers; however, the power of capital relative to labor is contingent. This essay concludes by exploring ways in which public policies can support migrants by making migration less costly & more secure, through reducing discrimination & enhancing access to health care & other services. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

This atlas proposes a series of different perspectives on the manifold changes characterizing rural Africa. Based on an examination of the major demographic, spatial and economic trends at the continental level, illustrated by several regional examples, its aims is to inform the debate ion the key issues of territorial development and to contribute to the work of the NEPD Rural Futures programme.

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