Rural Development And Migration: A Study Of Family Choices In The Philippines - Softcover

Findley, Sally E.; Goldscheider, Calvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367301733 ISBN 13: 9780367301736

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Perhaps because I grew up on a farm in Ohio, I have long been interested in rural development. Although I fll'St became a migrant at the age of 17 when I left the farm to continue my studies in a city college, I was not aware of the relation between rural development and migration until many years later when I began studying patterns of urban and rural poverty. This research has grown out of my continuing investigation of the ways that migration .has been seen as both a response to chronic conditions of rural poverty and a factor potentially exacerbating urban poverty conditions. If governments wanted to deal with urban poverty, they would want to restrict urban in-migration, yet if they reduced urban in-migration, this would remove one of the important means available to persons seeking to raise themselves out of rural impoverishment. This would clearly be a no-win situation for the rural poor; the only way to deal fairly with both urban and rural poverty would be to foster socio-economic development of rural areas. Thus, I became interested in studying the patterns of rural development which actually have had an effect on the migration decisions of rural families.

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Sally E. Findley, Calvin Goldscheider

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367301733
• ISBN 13: 9780367301736
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332