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

Findley, Sally E.; Goldscheider, Calvin

ISBN 10: 0367286270 / ISBN 13: 9780367286279

Published by Routledge, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rural Development And Migration: A Study Of Family Choices In The Philippines
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367286270
• ISBN 13: 9780367286279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

Sally E. Findley, Calvin Goldscheider