Kinship, Honour and Money in Rural Pakistan

Rural poverty combined with Pakistan's labour-market policies forces many Punjabi men to seek work abroad. Remittances home have gone into conspicuous consumption rather than economic development; the validity of the use of migration as a development strategy is thus questioned.

Alain Lefebvre

Introduction; 1: Pakistan and International Labour Migration; 2: Chahiwala and Baranpur; 3: Traditional Sources of Income in the Villages; 4: The Landowners; 5: The Landless Villagers; 6: International Labour Migration; 7: International Migration and Women's Role in the Village; Conclusions