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| Title: | Migration and Development in Western Kenya, 1971-1982: A Retrospective Study of Primary School Leavers |
| Author: | Gould, W.T.S. |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 262-285 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | internal migration school leavers Bibliography/Research Urbanization and Migration Education and Oral Traditions |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160580 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1985-055-00-000018 |
| Abstract: | The conflicting diagnoses and the consequent prognoses for development in Kenya, as put forward by the ILO report of 1972 and, in market contrast, a major stream of studies of underdevelopment, were based on the experience of the 1960s. This article contributes to the controversy in a consideration of the changes in structures and patterns of migration from Kakamega District in western Kenya in the 1970s. Examining the migrations of a sample of inhabitants of one part of western kenya, this article records the results of a retrospective survey in one small area of Kakamega District, Western Province, obtained as part of a wider survey of migration of school leavers. The results shed light on some of the issues raised by general perspectives and specific propositions on migration in the period in question. The essential economic, geographical, political and social relationship within the migration system have hardly changed since independence, and the processes of rural improvement in western Kenya apace. - Fig., ref., sum. in French, tab. |
