Marco Breschi
Matteo Manfredini
Alessio Fornasin

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/15/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.15

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Abstract

This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relationship between household emigration and different kinds of short-term stresses, either economic, epidemiologic or within the household. Despite the different response by SES - with the poorest strata of the population much exposed to price changes and mortality crisis - the death of the household head appears as one of the most powerful factor of household emigration.

Author's affiliation
Marco Breschi
University of Sassari, Italy
Matteo Manfredini
University of Parma, Italy
Alessio Fornasin
University of Udine, Italy

Keywords
emigration, household, Italy, sharecropping, short-term stress

Word count (Main text)
5827

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