Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth.
Its empirical and theoretical treatment of immobility and sedentariness as neglected aspects in migration and mobility studies. No book-length work dedicated to immobility exists as yet.
Unique in the analytical extent to which immobility and migration are shown to be intertwined and pervade agrarian life.
Offers novel takes on classic anthropological debates about social reproduction and peasant communities in the context of globalization and migrant transnationalism.
Focuses on rural youth, on their transition to adulthood and on their role in regenerating the traditional social order.
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