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Articles

Causes and Effects of Rural-Urban Migration in Ethiopia: A Case Study from Amhara Region

Pages 77-94 | Received 11 Oct 2019, Accepted 20 Sep 2020, Published online: 06 Apr 2021

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Focus group discussions

  • 9 April 2018
  • Ale, 47-year-old farmer and head of a relatively strong household in Kollela
  • Asaye, 56-year-old man, head of a reconciliation council in Kollela
  • Endale, 51-year-old man and a member of reconciliation council in Kollela
  • Lewoye, 46-year-old man and a member of reconciliation council
  • Muche, 50-year-old man in Kollela who relies heavily on remittances from his migrating son
  • Tadele, 50-year-old man and head of subsistence farming family in Kollela
  • 5 May 2018
  • Abeba, 37-year-old woman surviving on remittances from her migrant husband
  • Mallede, 44-year-old woman of relatively independent means who receives money from her migrant son
  • Maste, 32-year-old woman who supplants her livelihood with remittances from her migrant children
  • Tewabech, 37-year-old woman of good economic standing
  • Tiblet, 35-year-old woman who encourages her husband to engage in migrant labour
  • Wubit, 33-year-old women who supplements her living with income from her migrant seasonal labourer husband

Interviews

  • Abebe, 33-year-old land renter and sharecropper who migrates for wage labour in cities to supplement his farm income, 3 March 2018
  • Bayene, 36-year-old subsistence farmer who supplements his poor farm income with wages earned in cities, 29 March 2018
  • Kebede, 29-year-old seasonal migrant to Bahir Dar and Mattama who was inspired by his predecessors 11 May 2018
  • Mekuria, 38-year-old migrant wage labourer to Bahir Dar and Mattama, 17 August 2018
  • Mulat, 30-year-old land renter and migrant wage labourer 2 December 2018
  • Yohannes, 30-year-old migrant wage labourer looking to supplement his household income, 22 June 2018

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