'They used to go to eat, now they go to earn': The changing meanings of seasonal migration from Puruliya District in West Bengal, India

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 395-433

  Rogaly, Ben ^a   Coppard, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

India; Peasant capitalism; Seasonal migration; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; RURAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; PURULIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 0041702094     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0366.00060     Document Type: Article

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