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1st Edition

The Middle Eastern Village Changing Economic and Social Relations

By Richard Lawless Copyright 2015
336 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
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Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation, usually in the Western model, has often brought major improvements in agricultural technology, education and public health but has also had the effect of weakening the traditional rural economy of many villages and encouraging their growing dependence on external sources of income,... Read more

Introduction Richard Lawless.  1. Environmental Changes and Village Societies West of the White Nile: Central Sudan Anthony Trilsbach  2. Migration and Modernisation in Rural Turkey Brian Beeley  3. The Socialist Villages of Algeria Keith Sutton  4. Labour Migration and the Transformation of a Village Economy: A Case Study from North-West Jordan Ian Seccombe  5. Diffusion and Acceptance of Modern Schooling in Rural Jordan Lars Wahlin  6. An Explosive Vote of Change in Khabura, Oman: Immigrants Fill the Labour Vacuum Roderic Dutton  7. Expectations and Reality in the Modernisation of Two Iranian Villages Nico Kielstra  8. Zaio Transformed: Two Decades of Change in North-West Morocco David Seddon  9. Egyptian Migration and Peasant Wives Elizabeth Taylor  10. Labour Migration and Key Aspects of Its Economic and Social Impact on a Yemen Highland Community Shelagh Weir

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