Space and gender in the determination of colonial mortality: the women who were left behind

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Title:	Space and gender in the determination of colonial mortality: the women who were left behind
Author:	Fetter, Bruce
Year:	1986
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Los Angeles, CA
Publisher:	African Studies Association
Geographic terms:	Congo (Democratic Republic of) Zambia Malawi
Subjects:	population policy colonialism
Abstract:	The consequence of the colonial locational control policies in Central Africa during the interwar period was the establishment of two distinct demographic regimes: a rural one comprised primarily of women, children and old people; and an urban one in which able-bodied men worked for limited periods of time, earning their tax money and then returning to their villages. The author evaluates the effect of these policies on local population change.