Inside the Third World Village

✍ Scribed by Petra Weyland

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is about everyday life in a contemporary Egyptian village and the struggle to survive under extremely hard economic conditions. Over the last two decades many of the men in the village have spent long periods working in the Gulf. The villagers see this as the only option to make ends meet. Ths issue of labour migration is seen to be a complex one, impacting as it does on a variety of levels - a globally organised labour market, the village, peasant households as well as individuals. For those left behind, generally women, the young and the old, subsistence agriculture continues. With wider responsibilities within the community, the women break with traditional gender roles. Inside The Third World Village presents a detailed exploration of the changing assumptions and expectations of these villagers, of the ways in which they have grafted the demands and opportunities of the developed world onto the community of the underdeveloped village.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
EGYPT'S RURAL AREAS OVER THE PAST TWO CENTURIES: FROM TARAHIL TO THE RATIONALIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRANT BUSINESS......Page 28
TRACKING DOWN GLOBAL FLOWS IN THE THIRD WORLD VILLAGE......Page 57
KAFR AL-ISHRA: AN AGRARIAN VILLAGE IN THE 1980s......Page 74
KAFR AL-ISHRA'S PEASANT HOUSEHOLDS: PRODUCTION SITES OF LABOUR POWER FOR INTERNATIONAL MARKETS......Page 112
MIGRATION AS A STRATEGY OF THE SMALL PEASANT HOUSEHOLD......Page 151
ORGANIZING THE HOUSEHOLD'S SURVIVAL DURING THE MIGRANT'S ABSENCE......Page 185
AFTER THE GULF CRISIS: REVISITING KAFR AL-ISHRA......Page 204
Notes......Page 234
Bibliography......Page 249
Index......Page 261