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LOSING PLACE. REFUGEE POPULATIONS AND RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN EAST AFRICA by J. Bascom. Berghahn, Oxford, 1998. No. of pages: xviii + 200. price: £ 25.00. hardback. ISBN 1 57181 083 8.

LOSING PLACE. REFUGEE POPULATIONS AND RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN EAST AFRICA by J. Bascom.... Book Reviews 177 tion model, as has been the case all this while, tempted to suspect that it takes a religious stance. implicitly calls for taking a new look at the theory, On the contrary, the book is a scholarly piece of and his search for explanation in government urban work which forms compulsory reading on a subject vis-aÁ-vis rural programmes is a welcome challenge whose glitter and appeal keep growing and which, for future research. But a subject as starved of in the process of reading, enables readers to walk research funds as migration may not draw the through a thread of ideas originating in past attention of research-funding agencies any more history, the contemporary period and the ®rst two closely than before. decades of the 21st century. Both the Ponti®cal All in all, Resources and Population is a well-edited Academy of Sciences and the editors of the book are book in which all the chapters are carefully commended for a work well documented and prepared in concise, lucid and easily readable style. coming in the wake of major global conferences at It lives up to its subtitle Natural, Institutional and which resources and population have ®gured Demographic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Population Geography Wiley

LOSING PLACE. REFUGEE POPULATIONS AND RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN EAST AFRICA by J. Bascom. Berghahn, Oxford, 1998. No. of pages: xviii + 200. price: £ 25.00. hardback. ISBN 1 57181 083 8.

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1077-3495
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Book Reviews 177 tion model, as has been the case all this while, tempted to suspect that it takes a religious stance. implicitly calls for taking a new look at the theory, On the contrary, the book is a scholarly piece of and his search for explanation in government urban work which forms compulsory reading on a subject vis-aÁ-vis rural programmes is a welcome challenge whose glitter and appeal keep growing and which, for future research. But a subject as starved of in the process of reading, enables readers to walk research funds as migration may not draw the through a thread of ideas originating in past attention of research-funding agencies any more history, the contemporary period and the ®rst two closely than before. decades of the 21st century. Both the Ponti®cal All in all, Resources and Population is a well-edited Academy of Sciences and the editors of the book are book in which all the chapters are carefully commended for a work well documented and prepared in concise, lucid and easily readable style. coming in the wake of major global conferences at It lives up to its subtitle Natural, Institutional and which resources and population have ®gured Demographic

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Published: Mar 1, 2000

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