Migrants in Agricultural Development

A study which examines the economic rationale for migration and its effect on agricultural development. It features case studies of rural-to-rural migration in 10 countries, making a comparative assessment of forced and spontaneous migration.

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Part 1 The economic rationale for migration. Part 2 International migration experience - seven case studies: rural migration in England - the long historical perspective, Joan Thirsk; land settlement in Australia since 1788, Bruce R.Davidson; migrant workers from East-Elbe and Eastern Europe in the Prussian "Sugarbeet" province of Saxony, 1830-1914, Hans-Heinrich Muller; outline history of the colonisation of Hokkaido, 1870-1930, Shiina Shigeaki; migration and adaptation - developing new farming strategies on the American Grasslands, 1875-1925, D.Aidan McQuillan; colonists and transmigrants in agricultural development - planned and sponsored settlement in Indonesia, Sediono M.P.Tjandronegaro; migrations and socio-economic change in rural Latin America, Solon L.Barraclough. Part 3 Forced migration in Africa - two case studies: local responses to involuntary relocation and development in the Zambian portion of the Middle Zambesi Valley, Thayer Scudder and Jonathan Habarad; refugees and agricultural development in Tanzania, Allen Armstrong. Part 4 The implications for agricultural development.