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Title: | Migration and Changing Divisions of Labor: Gender Relations and Economic Change in Koguta, Western Kenya |
Author: | Francis, Elizabeth |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 65 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 197-216 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | gender relations Luo labour migration Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Cultural Roles economics migration Sex Roles Status of Women |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161190 |
Abstract: | This study explores the impact of economic change on gender relations among the Luo of western Kenya. It is based on field research carried out between 1987 and 1989 in Koguta Sublocation, South Nyakach Location, Kisumu District. Research methods included the collection of sixty life histories and a budget survey. The study shows how the emergence of a migrant labour economy, long-term agricultural decline and accompanying processes of household differentiation have been registered and acted out in domestic relationships. A central concept in the analysis is that of divisions of labour, which covers the division of tasks, divisions of spheres of responsibility and authority and contributions to the reproduction of the household. Changes in all these have shaped, and have been shaped, by the trajectory of economic decline in the region. Changing divisions of labour have been slow, piecemeal, nonuniform and nonlinear. They have been the subject of intense conflicts within households which have centred on questions of access to and control over resources and in which, as well as power relations, ideas about rights and responsibilities have been crucially important. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |