Titre : |
Debt bondage, seasonal migration and alternative issues : lessons from Tamil Nadu (India) [en ligne]. [consulté le 26/06/2008] |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Kamala Marius-Gnanou, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2008 |
Article en page(s) : |
p. 127-142 |
Note générale : |
Notes ; oai:halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr.halshs-00345113_v1 ; Article paru dans Autrepart n° 46, 2008, p. 127-142 (Numéro thématique : Libéralisation, processus d'intégration régionale et restructurations agricoles au sud et à l'est) ; bibliogr. 39 réf., cartes |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Catégories : |
Agriculture Finances Société Travail
|
Mots-clés : |
Dette Migration saisonnière Canne à sucre Plantation Industrie sucrière Revenu Contrat de travail Main d'oeuvre Servitude pour dette Coupeur de canne Travail agricole |
Résumé : |
Debt bondage in India is often associated with seasonal migration and extreme poverty. If migration is considered as an integral part of the survival strategies of the poor, the impact of migration on relations of exploitation is still very much debated. Various studies undertaken during the 1990s showed that this debt bondage system, at least in its traditional form, gradually fell into disuse because capitalist farming, in actuality, necessitates the mobility of "free labour" that is not bound to landlords. It has also, conversely, contributed to the reinforcement of debt bondage through a system of advance controlled by the labour broker or jobber (maistries). In this paper we investigate the link between debt bondage and seasonal migration with a view of determining whether the former is positively correlated or not to the latter. A particular attention has been devoted to landless migrants such as cane cutters who are recruited through jobbers. The study is based on three fieldworks conducted in February 2004, August 2007 and February 2008 in ThondiReddi Palayam, a hamlet of scheduled casts located some 15 km from Willipuram in Tamil Nadu (South India) (Résumé auteur). |
Mots-clés géographiques : |
Tamil Nadu ; Inde ; Thondireddi Palayam |
Type de document Regards : |
Article de périodique |
Identifiant Regards : |
66854 |
En ligne : |
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00345113/fr/ |
Permalink : |
https://www.cist-regards.fr/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=66810 |
in Autrepart : cahiers des sciences humaines / [ORSTOM] > no. 46 [01/01/2008] . - p. 127-142