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For Richer, for Poorer: Marriage and Casualized Sex in East African Artisanal Mining Settlements

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  • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
  • Jesper Bosse Jønsson
  • Hannelore Verbrugge

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type="main"> Migrants to Tanzania's artisanal gold mining sites seek mineral wealth, which is accompanied by high risks of occupational hazards, economic failure, AIDS and social censure from their home communities. Male miners in these settlements compete to attract newly arrived young women who are perceived to be diverting male material support from older women and children's economic survival. This article explores the dynamics of monogamy, polygamy and promiscuity in the context of rapid occupational change. It shows how a wide spectrum of productive and welfare outcomes is generated through sexual experimentation, which calls into question conventional concepts of prostitution, marriage and gender power relations.

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  • Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Jesper Bosse Jønsson & Hannelore Verbrugge, 2014. "For Richer, for Poorer: Marriage and Casualized Sex in East African Artisanal Mining Settlements," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 45(1), pages 79-104, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:45:y:2014:i:1:p:79-104
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    1. Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, 2014. "Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future," WIDER Working Paper Series 008, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    3. Deborah Fahy Bryceson, 2014. "Youth in Tanzania's Urbanizing Mining Settlements: Prospecting a Mineralized Future," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-008, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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