Yorke, Louise;
Gilligan, Robbie;
Alemu, Eyerusalem;
(2021)
Exploring the dynamics of female rural-urban migration for secondary education in Ethiopia.
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
, 53
(4)
pp. 693-709.
10.1080/03057925.2021.1951665.
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Abstract
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore the rural-urban migration of 27 girls and young women who leave their rural communities and move to the city to pursue their secondary education, in the ethnically diverse Southern Region of Ethiopia. We consider the nature and extent of the inequalities that they face in rural areas which limit their education opportunities and outcomes and underpin their expected entry into marriage. We compare their experiences in their rural communities with their lives in the city, where they have greater access to resources and greater freedom and decision-making power and the opportunity to continue their secondary education, although their futures are still uncertain. Through our analysis we reveal some of the tensions between the promise of girls’ secondary education promoted at the international and national level and the lived realities of rural girls and women, many of whom are unable to realise this promise.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring the dynamics of female rural-urban migration for secondary education in Ethiopia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03057925.2021.1951665 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2021.1951665 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Girls' secondary education, female rural-urban migration, marriage, empowerment, Ethiopia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181202 |
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