Chapter Three. Dutch Labor Migration To West Africa (C. 1590-1674)

2009 ◽  
pp. 73-97
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Labor Migration

Migrant Groundnut Farmers in the Gambia: The Persistence of a Nineteenth Century Labor System

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Swindell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
The Gambia ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Labor System ◽  
Migration Systems

This paper is an analysis of the Strange Farmers of the Gambia who represent one of the oldest labor migration systems in West Africa. Exploring the formation and continuance of the Strange Farmer system, this paper uses the Gambian Sample Survey of Agriculture, which followed the Population Census of 1973, to present an assessment of the numbers farming, their origins and their distribution within the country.

Teenage Labor Migration and Antitrafficking Policy in West Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 653 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Howard
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Policy Responses

Within the antitrafficking community, even legal child or youth work is often pathologized, seen as a “worst form of child labor” or, where movement is involved, as trafficking. Major policy responses thus focus on attempting to protect the young by preventing their movement or policing their work. Using a case study of adolescent labor migrants in Benin who work in artisanal gravel quarries in Nigeria, I provide evidence that suggests that the dominant discourse regarding this kind of labor is inaccurate and that policies based on it may be failing. This is in large part because the labor migration depicted as “trafficking” by the antitrafficking community is not experienced as such by young migrants.

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