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Review of “Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia”
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Driven by development, rural Ethiopians relocate to domestic and international destinations to secure a dignified life. Kerilyn Schewel’s Moved by Modernity captures this mobility and competently challenges the dominant assumption, embedded in policy frameworks from the European Union’s external migration agenda to now-defunct USAID programming, that economic development reduces migration pressures. Drawing on multi-generational fieldwork in Wayisso, a rural Ethiopian village, Schewel argues that development processes, state formation, market integration, educational expansion, and foreign investment reshape aspirations and capabilities to migrate, fueling rather than containing mobility. A secondary objective is equally important: to explain immobility, demonstrating why the poorest households remain behind, trapped by the very forces assumed to push them out. Together, these objectives position the book as both a theoretical tour de force in migration studies and a compelling critique of conventional development policy thinking.
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