LABOUR MIGRATION IN COLONIAL YORUBALAND, 1893‐1960

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The 1893 Treaties of Friendship and Commerce may not be a mutually exclusive explanation for social conflicts in contemporary Yorubaland; it however orchestrated the twin process of labour migration and social mobility, which, served as competitive explanations for a dense landscape of social conflicts between immigrant labourers and host populations. As this study argues, change in land tenure system, establishment of transportation grid and communication systems, commercialization of agriculture, etc combined together to re-invent Yoruba societies and thus made it a choice location for labour migrants during the colonial period. These multidimensional developments skewed the relations between the rich, the royalty and the poor as well as redefined wealth. Morality, as wealth, gave way to audacity and the acquisition of material things. The new class of rich men and women were the industrious, the daring and the bold. Many of these nouveau riche, mostly immigrants, were the hitherto social miscreants and low-class people. They formed the new class of elite that worked with the colonial administration and the eventual inheritors of Nigeria as independent nation. Desirous of sanity, the engagement between the old and this new class of leaders underlies the current manifestations of social conflicts in Yorubaland.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Body
• 3. Conclusion.
• 〈Reference〉
• Abstract