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Bonded: Life Stories from Agricultural Communities in South-Eastern Nepal

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dc.creator Cannon, Mariah
dc.creator Oosterhoff, Pauline
dc.date 2021-06-17T10:01:30Z
dc.date 2021-06-17T10:01:30Z
dc.date 2021-06-17
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:46:50Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:46:50Z
dc.identifier Cannon, M. and Oosterhoff, P. (2021) Bonded: Life Stories from Agricultural Communities in South-Eastern Nepal, CLARISSA Working Paper 6, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/CLARISSA.2021.003
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-807-1
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16682
dc.identifier Participation Power and Social Change
dc.identifier 10.19088/CLARISSA.2021.003
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198508
dc.description In the Terai region of South-Eastern Nepal, there persists a form of agricultural bonded labour called Harwa-Charwa, rooted in agricultural feudal social relations. The Terai has a long and dynamic political history with limited employment opportunities and high levels of migration. This paper is an external qualitative analysis of over 150 life stories from individuals living in an area with high levels of bonded labour. These stories were previously analysed during a workshop through a collective participatory analysis. Both the participatory analysis and external analysis found similar mechanisms that trap people in poverty and bonded labour. The disaggregation by age in the external analysis could explain why child marriage and child labour were very important in the collective analysis but did not match the results of a baseline survey in the same geographical area that found only a few cases. The respondents were aged between 15 and 65. Child marriage and child labour had shaped the lives of the adults but have since decreased. Methodologically, the different ways of analysis diverge in their ability to differentiate timelines. The participatory analysis gives historical insights on pathways into child labour, but although some of the social norms persist this situation has changed.
dc.description Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
dc.language en
dc.publisher Institute of Development Studies
dc.relation CLARISSA Working Paper;6
dc.rights This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated.
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights Institute of Development Studies
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Children and Youth
dc.subject Participation
dc.subject Rights
dc.subject Work and Labour
dc.title Bonded: Life Stories from Agricultural Communities in South-Eastern Nepal
dc.type Series paper (IDS)
dc.coverage Nepal


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