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Title: | Migrancy and its effect on the economy in Liberia: a socio-economic case study |
Author: | Hasselmann, Karl-Heinz |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | The Liberian Economic and Management Review |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 3-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Liberia |
Subjects: | social mobility urbanization |
Abstract: | This paper attempts to evaluate population mobility in Liberia, especially that of migration - into the capital city of Monrovia: Migrancy and urbanism - Economic motivations for the rural out-migration - Empirical facts for the rural reality of migration - Urban economic activities as an alternative to agricultural employment - Geographic migration and social mobility - Migration latency and socio-economic stabilization or labialisation - Urban employment as a cutting-off force from traditional bindings Urban-rural financial links - Conclusions. Notes, tables. |