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Title: | Women's roles in settlement and resettlement in Mali |
Author: | Koenig, Dolores |
Book title: | African feminism: the politics of survival in sub-Saharan Africa / ed. by Gwendolyn Mikell. - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Year: | 1997 |
Pages: | 159-181 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mali |
Subjects: | settlement schemes resettlement women |
Abstract: | This chapter deals with women in resettlement communities in Mali. It draws upon studies in six regional sites of contemporary land settlement conducted in the late 1980s. The migration and settlement of new lands by the farmers in the sample were precipitated by the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s; the repatriation of international migrants; and the involuntary relocation of people displaced by large-scale infrastructure projects. In order to examine the implications for women of the contemporary patterns of rural migration and settlement the author focuses on 1) issues within the household, and the developing division of labour between men and women within and outside of agriculture; and 2) the effects on women of changing relationships beyond the household, among households at the local level, and between households and the State. The article shows how the precolonial, colonial and independent States provided the context for resettlement. Patterns of population movement reflected decisions made by men, but whose success depended on the productive involvement of women. To increase women's ability to contribute to family welfare, State policies should explicitly address their needs in all the (re)settlement sites. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |