The structural differences between the various regions of modern Mozambique are the result of a huge variety of factors, not least the recent history of internal war and the ways in which the new development programmes were conceived and implemented. However, this paper explains how the last phase of colonial rule developed or consolidated local differences in the political economy of the territory, and how this process was linked to the growth and consolidation of the international/”transnational” networks. This analysis, based on the study of labour migration in the 1940s and 1950s in the old District of Beira (corresponding now approximately to the Provinces of Manica and Sofala) will consider how three key factors contributed to, or reflected, the socio-economic differentiation of the territory: the formation of labour-reserve areas, the labour recruitment process and the working conditions in the colonial enterprises, and the structure of internal and outward migration.
M. Newitt, C. Tornimbeni (2008). Transnational Networks and Internal Divisions in Central Mozambique. CAHIERS D'ETUDES AFRICAINES, vol. 4, n. 192, 707-740.
Transnational Networks and Internal Divisions in Central Mozambique
TORNIMBENI, CORRADO
2008
Abstract
The structural differences between the various regions of modern Mozambique are the result of a huge variety of factors, not least the recent history of internal war and the ways in which the new development programmes were conceived and implemented. However, this paper explains how the last phase of colonial rule developed or consolidated local differences in the political economy of the territory, and how this process was linked to the growth and consolidation of the international/”transnational” networks. This analysis, based on the study of labour migration in the 1940s and 1950s in the old District of Beira (corresponding now approximately to the Provinces of Manica and Sofala) will consider how three key factors contributed to, or reflected, the socio-economic differentiation of the territory: the formation of labour-reserve areas, the labour recruitment process and the working conditions in the colonial enterprises, and the structure of internal and outward migration.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.