Rural-urban linkage : Masvingo's double-rooted female heads of households
This article results from research on female heads of households in a small Zimbabwean city. Urban-rural linkages constituted an important, on-going survival strategy for women in the research sample. Despite my respondents' desire to stay and to source a living in town, most maintained rural linkages in order to cope with various problems in town. Without a foot in the rural area, most women would not have been able to pursue their desired objective of being permanently urban. Although the women were urban-oriented, they used kin networks in ways that maximised their chances of surviving in town, against the structural constraints imposed by central and local-level bureaucracies. The article explores ways in which the women pursued the strategy.
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Zambezia
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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1997
- Authors
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Muzvidziwa, V. N.
- Material Type
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Articles
- Publishers
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University of Zimbabwe
- Language
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English
- Pages
- Pages 97-123
- Part of
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Zambezia. Vol. 24 No. 2 (1997)
- ISSN
- 0379-0622
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