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Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11800/
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00362-8
doi:10.1057/s41287-021-00362-8
 
Title Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya
 
Creator Crossland, M
Paez Valencia, A M
Pagella, T
Mausch, K
Harris, D
Dilley, L
Winowiecki, L
 
Subject Livelihoods
Smallholder Agriculture
Gender Research
 
Description In Makueni County, Kenya, an area experiencing intensifying migration flows, we
investigate the aspired futures of rural men and women using a novel methodology
combining a narrative-based survey tool, focus group discussions and semistructured
interviews. Our findings indicate that, in the absence of men and presence
of norms restricting women’s movement out of rural life, women are becoming
increasingly engaged in farm management. Women’s aspirational narratives focused
on commercialising farm activities, likely reflecting their changing agricultural
opportunity space and new realities as farm managers. We highlight that only considering
aspirations at the household level overlooks differing individual contributions,
agency over various household income streams and individuals’ changing
roles throughout life. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for further
aspirations research including explicit consideration of intrahousehold heterogeneity
and how individual strategies and aspirations interrelate and are negotiated at the
household level to build an overall livelihood strategy.
 
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
 
Date 2021-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11800/1/s41287-021-00362-8.pdf
Crossland, M and Paez Valencia, A M and Pagella, T and Mausch, K and Harris, D and Dilley, L and Winowiecki, L (2021) Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya. The European Journal of Development Research (TSI). ISSN 0957-8811