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Title Informal moves, informal markets: International migrants and traders from Mzimba District, Malawi
Full text https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/informal-moves-informal-markets-international-migrants-and-trader
Date 2006
Author(s) Andersson, Jens A.
Abstract International migration from Malawi has changed profoundly since centrally organized mine migration to South Africa ended in the 1980s. Contemporary movements are more diverse and less tied to labour, as informal trade has developed alongside. This article replaces a common 'productivist' perspective on migration with a decentralized approach, using ethnographic observation and anthropological case studies to understand interrelated flows of people and goods. It shows how in an emergent informal market for South African goods in Mzimba, Malawi, price information does not structure trade practices. Historical continuities in the socio-cultural organization of illegal migration, rather than liberalized market forces, shape this economic configuration, including price formation.
Subject(s) Life Science
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/536763
Type of publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Article/Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format text/html
Source African Affairs 105 (2006) 420; ISSN: 0001-9909
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1093/afraf/adi128
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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