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This may be due to population pressures : the group recognizes that it cannot
offer land or work to everyone who wants it and gradually raises the qualifications
for membership . The bawon system , for example , has been modified in recent ...
This may be due to population pressures : the group recognizes that it cannot
offer land or work to everyone who wants it and gradually raises the qualifications
for membership . The bawon system , for example , has been modified in recent ...
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45 Migrants from rural areas are also likely to purchase land , though less for
farming than as a form of saving . In the Caribbean , where it was thought that
emigration might help reduce pressure on scarce land , it has had the opposite
effect ...
45 Migrants from rural areas are also likely to purchase land , though less for
farming than as a form of saving . In the Caribbean , where it was thought that
emigration might help reduce pressure on scarce land , it has had the opposite
effect ...
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land prices doubled as a result of a burst of construction by returned migrants . 47
In the Caribbean , too , land prices have also increased in response to
remittances : in one community in Dominica it was estimated in 1982 that over a
15 - year ...
land prices doubled as a result of a burst of construction by returned migrants . 47
In the Caribbean , too , land prices have also increased in response to
remittances : in one community in Dominica it was estimated in 1982 that over a
15 - year ...
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| Title | The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labour Migration |
| Authors | Peter Stalker, International Labour Office |
| Editor | Oficina Internacional del Trabajo (Ginebra) |
| Contributors | International Labour Organization, Organisation internationale du travail |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | International Labour Office, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 922108521X, 9789221085218 |
| Length | 327 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Emigration & Immigration |
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