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Title:Flexibility in Domestic Organization and Seasonal Migration among the Fulani of Northern Burkina Faso
Author:Hampshire, KateISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:76
Issue:3
Pages:402-426
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:Fulani
seasonal migration
households
Urbanization and Migration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40022743
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_the_journal_of_the_international_african_institute/v076/76.3hampshire.pdf
Abstract:Migration patterns among the Fulani of Burkina Faso have changed over recent decades from predominant transhumance, involving whole families, to seasonal rural-to-urban labour migration of young men. This article uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative data to examine the relationships between the new forms of migration and domestic organization. Specifically, it asks the following questions: (1) How do households accommodate the temporary loss of productive members? (2) Does the out-migration lead to new forms of domestic organization, and to changing roles and power relations within sending households? Various forms of flexibility in domestic organization are identified which serve to maintain viable economic units in the face of the temporary absence of substantial numbers of young men. These include: flexibility in the processes of household division; rapid, temporary restructuring of domestic units; and drawing on extra-household support networks. One consequence of this flexibility is that intra-household gender divisions of labour and power have remained largely unchanged in the face of seasonal labour migration. The extent to which this will remain the case if migration becomes more widespread is uncertain. Bibliogr., note, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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