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Aspiring for a Better Future: Rural Women Labour Migrants in Ethiopia’s Industrial Park
The expansion of industrial parks in Ethiopia’s major cities drew a large number of young migrant workers from rural villages. The majority of these first-generation industrial labour migrants are young women seeking industrial work, independence, and a better urban life. Drawing on fieldwork in two foreign garment companies located in the Bole Lemi Industrial Park (BLIP) on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, this paper examines the socio-economic factors influencing young rural women’s agency and aspirations to migrate to the city as industrial workers. Industrial parks become a space where the economic goals of foreign firms who have relocated their factories to increase profits by utilising a large pool of ‘untapped’ labour force intersect with the socio-economic aspirations of young rural labour migrants who have moved to urban areas. These labour migrants have moved to urban areas in search of a better life, escaping from rural poverty and patriarchy, culminating in the feminisation of factory work. ; publishedVersion
Aspiring for a Better Future: Rural Women Labour Migrants in Ethiopia’s Industrial Park
The expansion of industrial parks in Ethiopia’s major cities drew a large number of young migrant workers from rural villages. The majority of these first-generation industrial labour migrants are young women seeking industrial work, independence, and a better urban life. Drawing on fieldwork in two foreign garment companies located in the Bole Lemi Industrial Park (BLIP) on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, this paper examines the socio-economic factors influencing young rural women’s agency and aspirations to migrate to the city as industrial workers. Industrial parks become a space where the economic goals of foreign firms who have relocated their factories to increase profits by utilising a large pool of ‘untapped’ labour force intersect with the socio-economic aspirations of young rural labour migrants who have moved to urban areas. These labour migrants have moved to urban areas in search of a better life, escaping from rural poverty and patriarchy, culminating in the feminisation of factory work. ; publishedVersion
Aspiring for a Better Future: Rural Women Labour Migrants in Ethiopia’s Industrial Park
Amaya, Yonas Tesema (author)
2025-01-06
cristin:2336090
423-441 ; Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology
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Electronic Resource
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