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Investigating Poverty through the Lens of Riches – Immigration and Segregation in Indian Capture Fisheries
Author(s) -
Bavinck Maarten
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12042
Subject(s) - poverty , immigration , fishing , fishery , geography , development economics , population , period (music) , political science , economics , economic growth , sociology , biology , demography , physics , archaeology , acoustics
This article argues that in the period since 1900 marine capture fisheries are more profitably characterised by a quest for wealth than by enduring poverty. Making use of country data from India, it maintains that the blue revolution that took place in the South not only retained a steadily growing fishing population, but also provided opportunities for large numbers of immigrants, mainly in the lower echelons of the industry. It subsequently investigates the variations between geographical regions and sub‐sectors, and explains them by reference to non‐governmental institutional control patterns.