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• W74752829 abstract "This thesis focuses on rural-urban migration in Iganna, anancient Yoruba kingdom located fifty miles west of 0yo inNigeria.The fieldwork on which this thesis is based took place inIganna and partly in Ibadan and Lagos between April 1974 andOctober 1975.The central hypothesis which is put forward in the thesis isthat the present-day rural exodus to the urban centres (especiallyby young people) cannot adequately be accounted forin terms of a 'quest for money' explanation, or, more generally,in terms of formal maximisation theories. The root ofthis problem, it is argued, lies in the radical changes in therelations of production within the traditional kin-based householdunits since the inclusion of farm produce in long-distancetrade, with the result that farmers become increasingly dependenton/indebted to the middle traders (these are usually theirwomenfolk) and the hired labourers (these are men from outsideYorubaland). Inherent in this quantitative expansion of commercialfarming is a qualitative decrease in social solidarityin the more traditional Yoruba rural communities.The first part of the thesis examines the present-day migrationphenomenon as it presents itself in Iganna. While the town hasbeen drained of large numbers of its young people who have beenemigrating to the cities since the 1950s, immigration into thearea has taken place by Yoruba farmers from other towns, byFulani pastoralists and by farm labourers from outside Yorubaland.Interviews and questionnaire results concerning the reasons foremigration reveal that most people hold the opinion that thereis no money in farming, while emigration to the cities holdsthe promise of a better and more affluent life.Research into the occupations and living conditions of thepeople concerned, however, did not fully support such explanations.In the cities the majority of the Iganna migrants livein relative poverty, while in Iganna there are farmers, albeitmainly non-native, who realise good money returns in cash-cropping;although it is true that the majority of the Iganna farmersare chronically hard-up for money.In the second part of the thesis the system of agricultural productionin Iganna is examined withwhy it is unrewarding. A model of the traditional system ofagricultural production is presented which explains how farmer-householders used to exert control both over the allocationof their produce and over their dependent co-producers.An analysis is made of the modern changes in agricultural productionwhich were triggered off by the inclusion of farm producein the external trade with the distant urban markets.In the new system of production farmers no longer depend ontheir chiefs as patrons and creditors. Instead, their womenfolkwho have now become the middle traders in farm produceprovide them with credit. Farmers can no longer obtain theassistance of their own household dependants, especially sonsand debt-labourers, in order to increase their production.Instead they have to pay for the services of migrant labourers.Hence farmers tend to find themselves socially at the loser'send of the modern system of production, even when they makeprofits.While the traditional town environment in Iganna tends to disguisethese reversed relations of production, it also inhibitsfarmers from modernising their system of production. At thesome time Government policies and initiatives with regard toagriculture have usually proved to be inadequate in coming togrips with the real conditions in which agricultural productionis caught in the rural areas. Hence the discrepancies betweenpresent-day agricultural production and the rapid social changesin most other domains tend to become more pronounced as timegoes on, thus precipitating the large-scale emigration fromthe rural towns like Iganna to the cities." @default.
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• W74752829 title "Rural-urban migration in Iganna : a study of the changing relations of production in an agricultural community in northwestern Yorubaland" @default.
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