Alain Lefebvre

Kinship, Honour and Money in Rural Pakistan (eBook, ePUB)

Subsistence Economy and the Effects of International Migration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rural poverty combined with Pakistan's labour-market policies forces many Punjabi men to seek work abroad. Remittances home have gone into conspicuous consumption rather than economic development; the validity of the use of migration as a development strategy is thus questioned.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136806049
• Artikelnr.: 40824050

Autorenporträt

Alain Lefebvre

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Pakistan and International Labour Migration
2: Chahiwala and Baranpur
3: Traditional Sources of Income in the Villages
4: The Landowners
5: The Landless Villagers
6: International Labour Migration
7: International Migration and Women's Role in the Village
Conclusions