Fulani on the Move: Seasonal Economic Migration in the Sahel as a Social Process

By K. Hampshire. 2002

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Most research on short-term rural to urban migration and its impacts takes an economic approach and often emphasises negative aspects of migration, linking it synergistically with rural poverty in sending areas. Data from Fulani migrants in Northern Burkina Faso challenge this pessimistic view of short-term labour migration. Rather than a response to destitution, migration seems to be a useful way in which reasonably prosperous households can further enhance livelihood security. Moreover, factors not easily incorporated into a standard economic analysis, identity and village networks, emerge as being essential to the understanding of migration in this population. Finally, migration emerges as a highly dynamic process, which an ahistorical, static framework of analysis fails to capture.

Subfields: Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “For instance, recent studies conducted in Burkina Faso (Hampshire 2002; Wouterse 2006) and Morocco (de Haas 2006) suggest that internal and international migration within the African continent should primarily be seen as a means to enhance livelihood security through income diversification because…”
• Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso (2005, unknown): “Hampshire (2002) documented the centrality of cattle and herding to Fulbe identity.”
• Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of Literature (2007, background): “For instance, recent studies conducted in Burkina Faso (Hampshire 2002; Wouterse 2006) and Morocco (de Haas 2006) suggest that internal and international migration within the African continent should primarily be seen as a means to enhance livelihood security through income diversification because…”
• Mobility and Human Development (2009, result): “For instance, recent studies conducted in Burkina Faso (Hampshire 2002; Wouterse 2006) and Morocco (de Haas 2006a) suggest that internal and (South-South) migration within the African continent should primarily be seen as a means to enhance livelihood security through income diversification and that”
• South–South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences (2009, result): “For instance, recent studies conducted in Burkina Faso (Hampshire 2002; Wouterse 2006) and Morocco (de Haas 2006b) suggest that internal and international migration within the African continent should primarily be seen as a means to enhance livelihood security through income diversification and that”