Eaters Of The Dry Season: Circular Labor Migration In The West African Sahel

by David Rain and David Rain

Book Overview

The first book-length treatment of the subject, Eaters of the Dry Season explores the changing geography of seasonal mobility in the critical region of the African Sahel. Author David Rain focuses on the strategies and the stories of migrants in Maradi, a border town in southern Niger, against a contextual backdrop of demographic, ecological, and political-economic changes in the region. The author finds that instead of being desperate harbingers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367315459
• ISBN13: 9780367315450
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"