Lututala, M B
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The author analyzes migration from Africa to the developed countries of the north, focusing on the underlying logic and methods of such migration. He suggests that Africans see migration to the northern countries as a survival strategy and as an attempt to integrate themselves into the world economic system. The methods employed by African migrants...
Durand, J
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The economic changes that occurred in Mexico during the 1980s are described and their implications for emigration assessed. The author notes the concentration of economic development and population movement toward the area bordering the United States, and the growing impoverishment of much of the rest of the country, which is leading to either pres...
Ouedraogo, D
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The author analyzes contemporary international migration from Africa to Europe from an African perspective, and assesses its implications for the development strategies of the countries of origin. In order for the current situation to be improved, he stresses the need for cooperation between the governments of both sending and receiving countries, ...
Peemans, J P
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This work attempts to put certain problems of articulation between rural and urban areas in perspective in relation to the evolution of theories and doctrines of development. A sweeping overview of successive theories of economic development that have gained prominence since World War II is organized in terms of the dominant paradigms: that of "nat...
Dupont, V Dureau, F
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Using the examples of Ecuador and India, this article examines different forms of circular migration affecting the dynamics of urban populations, and considers their impact on how cities function. The authors look at the strategies of temporary migrants and commuters regarding how they fit into the geographic and occupational spaces available in ci...
Dufumier, M
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This work is based in part on the papers concerning agriculture, ecology, and development contained in this issue of the Revue Tiers-Monde. It provides an overview of changing international attitudes toward environmental damage, examines 3 specific types of damage affecting developing countries in particular, and discusses the shortcomings of exist...
Bernus, E Marchal, J Y Poncet, Y
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This work analyzes the problems of the Sahel by means of a description of certain systems of agriculture and livestock production. By the time the Sahel region came to the world's attention in the drought of the 1970s, it was a region undergoing perhaps irreversible change. The ecological and climatic zone of the Sahel is difficult to define precis...
Caire, G
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The author examines immigration in France in the context of the establishment of a closer European economic union and the concomitant free circulation of labor among the countries of the European Community. The number of migrants in each country before new labor migration regulations were implemented is first described. The author then examines how...
Vimard, P
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Changes in the family system of West Africa have accompanied the numerous economic, demographic, and social changes occurring after colonization and especially since independence. This work uses monographic data from Togo and the Ivory Coast to examine to what degree lineage structures have been supplanted by autonomy of domestic groups and the eme...
Arizpe, L Paz, F
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The concept of sustainability is usually defined according to specific socioeconomic contexts and is vague in application, but nevertheless essential for defining longterm objectives. This work seeks to demonstrate that the place of sustainability in a development model depends on the cultural values behind abstract ideas and on the perceptions and...
