'The government must not dictate': Rural-urban migrants' perceptions of Zimbabwe's land resettlement programme

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn , Issue 74, 1997, Pages 549-566

  Potts, Deborah ^a   Mutambirwa, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND RESETTLEMENT; PERCEPTION; RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME; RURAL-URBAN MIGRANTS;

ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LAND TENURE; LONGTERM EFFECTS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION POLICY; PERCEPTION; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SETTLEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES; LAND TENURE; LONGTERM EFFECTS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION POLICY; PERCEPTION; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SETTLEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, EASTERN; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031293132     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056249708704281     Document Type: Article

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