Eaters of the Dry Season
Subtitle: Circular Labor Migration in the West African Sahel
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780813338729
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Cultural studies; Immigration & emigration; Labour economics; Work & labour; Social Science; Sociology; West Africa; Anthropology - Cultural; Droughts; Migration, Internal; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Migrant labor; Sahel; Economic conditions; Migration (Social Aspects); Africa; Human Geography; Environmental Economics; General
First sentence: Every year after the rainy season ends and crops are harvested, hundreds of thousands of men and women leave their villages to work in West African cities.