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dc.creator Sunam, Ramesh
dc.date 2021-02-10T14:50:18Z
dc.date 2021-02-10T14:50:18Z
dc.date 2021-02-02T15:02:15Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-20T15:21:14Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-20T15:21:14Z
dc.identifier ONIX_20210202_9781000060782_chpt_39
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46487
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37922
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46487/1/9781000060782-ch03.pdf
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46487/1/9781000060782-ch03.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/251659
dc.description Through 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.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
dc.publisher Routledge
dc.relation Routledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies
dc.rights open access
dc.subject agrarian
dc.subject Brain drain
dc.subject global south
dc.subject land reform
dc.subject poverty
dc.subject rural
dc.subject transnational
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
dc.title Chapter 3 More than the soil
dc.resourceType chapter
dc.licenseCondition open access
dc.licenseCondition Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.licenseCondition Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.relationisPublishedBy fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0
dc.pages 24
dc.imprint Routledge
dc.relationisPartOfBook Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal
dc.relationisPartOfBook Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal


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