'To Seek a Better Life': The Implications of Migration from Mozambique to Tanganyika for Class Formation and Political Behavior

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Title:	'To Seek a Better Life': The Implications of Migration from Mozambique to Tanganyika for Class Formation and Political Behavior
Author:	Alpers, Edward A.
Year:	1984
Periodical:	Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:	18
Issue:	2
Pages:	367-388
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Tanzania Mozambique
Subjects:	migration political economy Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Labor and Employment Economics and Trade
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/484335
Abstract:	This article began as part of a collective effort to come to terms with the class basis of FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front. The immediate result is more specific. The author proposes to explore the important historical phenomenon of migration from northern Mozambique into colonial and, after 1961, independent Tanganyika within an historical materialist problematic in order to raise questions and suggest hypotheses about the impact of this process on the economic, social, and political history of northern Mozambique itself. In this preliminary effort no definitive answers are attempted and its conclusions will need to be confronted with internal evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania. Sections: Introduction - Methodological considerations - The political economy of Northern Mozambique - Mozambican workers in Tanganyika - Social and political consequences - Conclusion. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. (in French).