Migration, Livelihoods and Institutions: Contrasting Patterns of Migration in Mali
研究了马里两个地区不同族群和性别差异的移民模式，揭示移民并非被动应对经济环境，而是受社会网络、性别关系和家庭结构影响的复杂生计策略。
Migration is a common and essential livelihood strategy in the risk-prone environment of Sahelian West Africa. But migration is not a passive reaction to economic and environmental forces. Patterns of movement are determined by context-specific and complex dynamics, mediated by social networks, gender relations and household structures. IDS-based research on sustainable livelihoods illustrated this in two locations in Mali: in a village in the Sahelian dryland with different and gendered migration patterns of various ethnic groups; and exceptional patterns in the Sudano-Sahelian cotton region with extensive and long-lasting engagement in small cocoa and coffee plantations in Cote d'Ivoire.