Volume 25 - Article 15 | Pages 491–512
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population: The case of household out-migration
| Date received: | 28 Feb 2011 |
| Date published: | 19 Aug 2011 |
| Word count: | 5827 |
| Keywords: | emigration, household, Italy, sharecropping, short-term stress |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.15 |
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 - Università degli Studi di Sassari (UniSS), Italy
Alessio Fornasin - Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Matteo Manfredini - Università degli Studi di Parma (UNIPR), Italy
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