Abstract

This is an anthropological study of farmworkers living in reclaimed desert land in Egypt. Since the start in the early-1950s, desert land reclamation has been a governmental enterprise to increase cultivable land in order to keep pace with the rapid population growth. From the mid-1970s, reclaimed desert areas started to be distributed to various groups of people. "Peasants, "university graduates", "public company employees", and recently "evicted tenants" received small plots of land from the government, and became small-scale farmers. The government has considered them as the main components of such "new land" projects. Likewise, development programs and research institutions in desert development have exclusively focused on these small-scale farmers.

School

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Degree Name

MA in Sociology-Anthropology

Date of Award

Spring 6-1-2005

Online Submission Date

5-31-2005

First Advisor

Donald P. Cole

Committee Member 1

Kevin Dwyer

Committee Member 2

Richard N. Tutwiler

Document Type

Thesis

Extent

162 leaves :

Library of Congress Subject Heading 1

Agricultural laborers

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Call Number

Thesis 2005/41

Location

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