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diaspora · 2013 census analysis

Moving within The Gambia and carrying a place with you

Aggregate migration maps can contextualize memory without substituting for individual accounts.

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GBoS compared place of birth with place of enumeration in 2013 and found Kanifing and Brikama LGAs received most recorded internal migrants. It also notes Banjul's island housing constraint as one part of the wider pattern. [gbos-migration]

Kea's fieldwork in Brikama, at a different scale, follows the ways women migrants gained access to land through hosts and participated in farming and reciprocal work. Her account shows how belonging could be negotiated socially even when a census records only a birthplace and current area. [kea-brikama] [gbos-migration]

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