migrancy

To her credit, First chose to include this contradictory evidence rather than to leave it out of her text altogether, but she fails to address the complex social meanings of migrancy, meanings that women allude to through their choice of words, and that failure is symptomatic of this literature.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Doing some of the worst and most dangerous jobs in America (from exposure to toxic chemicals and workplace accidents), poverty has forced them into sub-standing housing, temporary jobs, increased migrancy, and family separation.

Modern Slavery in America 2009

So far, however, these records have been tapped primarily to understand the origins of male labor migrancy and its impact on the rural economy, and there has been little effort to problematize the testimony of men and women who were preoccupied, on the one hand, with distinguishing themselves from their "brutish" Portuguese colleagues and, on the other hand, with proving their determination to overcome Africans '"moral degeneracy" and spiritual "backwardness."

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The Swiss, believing that a life of migrancy only worsened an already deplorable set of cultural values and social practices, struggled to dissuade rural men from devoting themselves to it.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

According to women's relations of remembrance, and contrary to what most historians of southern Mozambique have argued, neither submission to Gaza Nguni rule after the 1820s, the rise of male labor migrancy to South Africa after the 1860s, the arrival of Christian missionaries in the 1880s, nor Portuguese colonial conquest in 1895 significantly disrupted the social fabric of the countryside.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Given that, we should not be surprised that scholars involved in migrant-labor historiography and in the limited work dealing with women and agrarian change in southern Mozambique interpret women's agricultural innovations, changing gender and family dynamics, and ritual initiatives related to the land either as evidence of women's suffering or as forms of female coping with migrancy-induced social crisis.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

This awareness intensified as the twentieth century progressed, as male migrancy, taxation, forced cash-crop production, and ecological crises sapped the agrarian economy 91 and required women to extend affective networks across as wide an area as possible.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

We are increasingly aware of the issues that cannot be solved by single sovereign states on their own – ecological crisis, terrorism, migrancy – yet are uncomfortable with any notion of global jurisdictions.

'Religion culture diversity and tolerance - shaping the new Europe': address at the European Policy Centre, Brussels 2005

She said the social factors driving HIV were unemployment, migrancy, poverty, sex for survival, gender and power, abuse of alcohol and drugs, and sexual abuse.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Apartheid colonialism - in particular policies and legislation such as the Land Acts (1913 and 1926), Group Areas, migrancy and Bantustan policies

Social transformation 2002