ABSTRACT
One of the main concerns of the last chapter was to investigate the factors which made migratory labour attractive on the world market. Both the flexibility and cheapness of migrant labour have been grounded in the peasant household’s articulation of different forms of production: members of these households perform various kinds of unremunerated labour at home and in the fields, their members produce subsistence and cash crops, they work as daily labourers in the fields, in the district town and abroad. I have also pointed to the fact that the perpetuation of this system is linked to a kind of ‘stability of instability’, which hinders peasant households from becoming entirely wage-labour oriented or completely self-sufficient from subsistence production. I have already discussed in the conclusion of the last chapter the fate of the subsistenceproducing context within market integration and I have argued that rather than being finally dissolved these households will survive as a result of the consequences of labour migration.
