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Ben Rogaly - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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struggling to save cash Seasonal Migration and vulnerability in west bengal india
Development and Change, 2003Co-Authors: Ben Rogaly, Abdur RafiqueAbstract:This article concerns an important but overlooked means by which able-bodied poor people get hold of lump sums of cash in rural West Bengal: Seasonal Migration for agricultural wage work. Drawing on a regional study of four Migration streams, our main focus here is on the struggle to secure this cash by landless households in just one of those streams, originating in Murshidabad District. Case studies are used to illustrate the importance for women in nuclear families of maintaining supportive networks of kin for periods when men are absent. A parallel analysis is made of the negotiations between male migrant workers and their employers, at labour markets, during the period of work, and afterwards. The article then briefly discusses some of the contrasting ways in which remittances are used by landless households and owners of very small plots of land, in the context of rapid ecological change, demographic pressure and growing inequality.
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who goes who stays back Seasonal Migration and staying put among rural manual workers in eastern india
Journal of International Development, 2003Co-Authors: Ben RogalyAbstract:In Barddhaman District, West Bengal, India, large numbers of rice transplanters and harvesters are Seasonal migrant workers, who are unable to make a living in their home areas. They often come from households where other members have stayed put. This paper illustrates the interdependence between those who move and those who stay. It also shows that structural factors, such as age, gender, class and ethnicity, though important, do not determine who migrates or who stays put in a particular season. Indeed, the paper raises questions about the very categories 'migrant' and 'person who stays put' in relation to Seasonal Migration. This is because such Migration inevitably involves doing both; and because for some of those who move and stay for longer, lifeworlds are 'stretched' between places. Moreover, whether a person stays put or migrates varies over the life course. Ironically, perhaps, Migration for arduous manual work away from home can be part of a struggle to be able to afford to stay put. © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Seasonal Migration and welfare illfare in eastern india a social analysis
Journal of Development Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Ben Rogaly, Daniel Coppard, Abdur Safique, Kumar Rana, Amrita Sengupta, Jhuma BiswasAbstract:Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in Seasonal Migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are strengthened through the experience of Migration and deployed by some migrants to make this form of employment less degrading. In West Bengal Seasonal Migration can involve practical welfare gains. Importantly, an informal wage floor has been put into place and managed by the peasant union allied to the largest party in the Left Front regime. However, the costs and risks of Migration remain high.
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Seasonal Migration and Welfare/Illfare in Eastern India: A Social Analysis
Journal of Development Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Ben Rogaly, Daniel Coppard, Abdur Safique, Kumar Rana, Amrita Sengupta, Jhuma BiswasAbstract:Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in Seasonal Migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are strengthened through the experience of Migration and deployed by some migrants to make this form of employment less degrading. In West Bengal Seasonal Migration can involve practical welfare gains. Importantly, an informal wage floor has been put into place and managed by the peasant union allied to the largest party in the Left Front regime. However, the costs and risks of Migration remain high.
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Workers on the move: Seasonal Migration and changing social relations in rural India.
Gender & Development, 1998Co-Authors: Ben RogalyAbstract:This paper considers Seasonal Migration in different regions of India, and argues the need for a better understanding of social and economic relations and the circumstances under which Migration can affect these to the benefit of poor migrant workers.
Susan M Lozier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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physical controls on the Seasonal Migration of the north pacific transition zone chlorophyll front
Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010Co-Authors: Jennifer M Ayers, Susan M LozierAbstract:[1] The large Seasonal Migration of the transition zone chlorophyll front (TZCF) is of interest because a number of marine fauna, both commercial and endangered, appear to track it. Herein we examine the physical dynamics driving this Seasonal Migration of the TZCF. Vertical processes, traditionally viewed as controlling the dynamical supply of nutrients to surface waters, prove insufficient to explain Seasonal variations in nutrient supply to the transition zone. Instead, we find that the horizontal Ekman transport of nutrients from higher latitudes drives the TZCF’s southward Migration. The estimated horizontal transport of nitrate supports up to 40% of new primary productivity in the region annually and nearly all of new primary productivity in the winter. The significance of horizontal advection to the North Pacific transition zone supports revising the paradigm that nutrients are supplied to surface waters from below.
Jennifer M Ayers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Physical controls on the Seasonal Migration of the North Pacific transition zone chlorophyll front
Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010Co-Authors: Jennifer M Ayers, M. Susan LozierAbstract:The large Seasonal Migration of the transition zone chlorophyll front (TZCF) is of interest because a number of marine fauna, both commercial and endangered, appear to track it. Herein we examine the physical dynamics driving this Seasonal Migration of the TZCF. Vertical processes, traditionally viewed as controlling the dynamical supply of nutrients to surface waters, prove insufficient to explain Seasonal variations in nutrient supply to the transition zone. Instead, we find that the horizontal Ekman transport of nutrients from higher latitudes drives the TZCF's southward Migration. The estimated horizontal transport of nitrate supports up to 40% of new primary productivity in the region annually and nearly all of new primary productivity in the winter. The significance of horizontal advection to the North Pacific transition zone supports revising the paradigm that nutrients are supplied to surface waters from below. © 2010 by the American Geophysical Union
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physical controls on the Seasonal Migration of the north pacific transition zone chlorophyll front
Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010Co-Authors: Jennifer M Ayers, Susan M LozierAbstract:[1] The large Seasonal Migration of the transition zone chlorophyll front (TZCF) is of interest because a number of marine fauna, both commercial and endangered, appear to track it. Herein we examine the physical dynamics driving this Seasonal Migration of the TZCF. Vertical processes, traditionally viewed as controlling the dynamical supply of nutrients to surface waters, prove insufficient to explain Seasonal variations in nutrient supply to the transition zone. Instead, we find that the horizontal Ekman transport of nutrients from higher latitudes drives the TZCF’s southward Migration. The estimated horizontal transport of nitrate supports up to 40% of new primary productivity in the region annually and nearly all of new primary productivity in the winter. The significance of horizontal advection to the North Pacific transition zone supports revising the paradigm that nutrients are supplied to surface waters from below.
Jhuma Biswas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Seasonal Migration and welfare illfare in eastern india a social analysis
Journal of Development Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Ben Rogaly, Daniel Coppard, Abdur Safique, Kumar Rana, Amrita Sengupta, Jhuma BiswasAbstract:Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in Seasonal Migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are strengthened through the experience of Migration and deployed by some migrants to make this form of employment less degrading. In West Bengal Seasonal Migration can involve practical welfare gains. Importantly, an informal wage floor has been put into place and managed by the peasant union allied to the largest party in the Left Front regime. However, the costs and risks of Migration remain high.
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Seasonal Migration and Welfare/Illfare in Eastern India: A Social Analysis
Journal of Development Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Ben Rogaly, Daniel Coppard, Abdur Safique, Kumar Rana, Amrita Sengupta, Jhuma BiswasAbstract:Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in Seasonal Migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are strengthened through the experience of Migration and deployed by some migrants to make this form of employment less degrading. In West Bengal Seasonal Migration can involve practical welfare gains. Importantly, an informal wage floor has been put into place and managed by the peasant union allied to the largest party in the Left Front regime. However, the costs and risks of Migration remain high.
J D Metcalfe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Seasonal Migration of thornback rays and implications for closure management
Journal of Applied Ecology, 2006Co-Authors: Ewan Hunter, Ainsley A. Buckley, Christie Stewart, Fiona Catherine Berry, J D MetcalfeAbstract:Sharks and rays are vulnerable to fisheries exploitation because of late maturation and low fecundity, highlighting the need for effective conservation strategies. Area closures have been proposed as an appropriate management option for thornback rays in the southern North Sea, where they appear to form local subpopulations between which there is limited mixing. To gain a fishery-independent estimation of stock distribution, 197 thornback rays Raja clavata tagged with electronic data storage tags (DST) were released in the Thames Estuary in 1999 and 2000. The tidal location method was used to estimate the positions of individual fish between time of release and recapture. The fishery-independent Seasonal stock distributions were integrated with landings data and a simple model was developed to estimate monthly fishing effort per International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) rectangle by different fleets and gear types. The potential impacts of closed area management, in terms of reducing thornback ray mortality in the southern North Sea, were calculated. Spatial closures were applied either (i) as permanent closures of individual ICES rectangles or (ii) Seasonally, at the level of the Thames Estuary. Catch reductions were calculated allowing for the redistribution of fishing effort. The results confirmed the importance of the Thames Estuary for thornback rays. However, 77% of rays moved outside the estuary over winter, with Seasonal Migration into the Thames to spawn between March and August. The effects of closures varied between areas and gear types. Permanent closures of individual ICES rectangles were less effective at reducing fishing mortality on rays than a spring or summer closure of the Thames Estuary as a whole, which would have a major impact on the commercially more valuable sole fishery. Synthesis and applications. The results presented illustrate the potential impacts of a range of closure scenarios, prior to their implementation, as a basis for advice on sustainable exploitation of thornback rays. These models could be further refined by additional studies of juvenile behaviour and of other ray subpopulations in the southern North Sea.