Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades. Edited by Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1988. Pp.xxviii + 640. £70. ISBN 0198288328 Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility Decline in the Developing World. Edited by Caroline H. Bledsoe, John B....

This introductory essay and collection concern the social processes within which migration for manual work is located and which are influenced by that same migration. Writing from detailed empirical studies of migration in South and South-east Asia and Africa, the contributors provide...

Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in seasonal migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are...