Title: Labour migrants with a secure base: Bedouin of South Sinai.

POPLINE Document Number: 231600

Author(s):

Marx E

Source citation:

In: Migrants, workers, and the social order, edited by Jeremy Eades. London, England, Association of Social Anthropologists [ASA], 1987. :148-64.

Abstract:

"I argue that one of the outstanding features of labour migration is that in the long run, the cash income plays only a limited role in the economy. For labour migration takes place in conditions where employment is insecure, so that many efforts are made to provide greater economic security....I concentrated on a number of labour migrants and their households, followed their movements wherever they led, and explored their social interactions over an extended period. These events took place against a background of changing political, economic, and ecological conditions....The population studied were [the] Bedouin of South Sinai [in Egypt]." (EXCERPT)

Keywords:

Egypt
Nomads
Labor Migration
Temporary Migration
Income
Remittances
Employment
Economic Conditions
Households
Migrants
Social Behavior
Socioeconomic Factors
Political Factors
Africa, Northern
Africa
Developing Countries
Migration
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Economic Factors
Microeconomic Factors
Macroeconomic Factors
Family and Household
Behavior