This article examines the struggle of the people of Makete District in the South -West of Tanzania to break away from the vicious circle of labour migration. Since the early 1970s the people from Makete District made an attempt to opt out of subsistence agriculture and circular wage labour migration to business. This change brought with it better prospects of alleviating poverty which was a common feature during the colonial period, and early post-independence period. As a whole, this change in occupational and migration structures has raised their per capita income and social status in Tanzania.
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