ABSTRACT
Human migration is an inherent element of the processes of industrialization, urbanization and development in general. In the rural social systems, discriminatory rules of inheritance, restrictions on the possession and use of property and land may be among the factors stimulating female migration. In Uganda, as in most developing areas, two main causes are responsible for large-scale human movements: the introduction of a monetary economy and, population increase. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, coffee began to be grown on a large scale in Uganda and cotton was established as a second cash crop especially in Buganda and the Eastern Region. Great numbers of migrant labourers from rural Ruanda, Kigezi and Ankole went to Buganda to work for Ganda coffee and cotton growers. It is reported that already in 1925 the Labour Department alone recruited 11,771 labourers from the south-western area of Uganda, the great majority of whom came from Ruanda and Burundi.
