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Peasant Migration: Law and Practice in Early Ottoman Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Amy Singer
Amy Singer*
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Tel Aviv University
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Peasant migration was the subject of careful regulation in the Ottoman Empire. The government tried to control peasant movement in order to ensure the supply of agricultural labor; peasants, on the other hand, used migration as one weapon against government abuses. This article examines Ottoman policy towards migration and recorded instances of peasant migration in sixteenth-century Palestine.

Peasant migration is most commonly considered in the context of seasonal labor movements, responding to large-scale agricultural enterprises or temporary labor shortages. Alternatively, migration may occur as a result of some disaster: war, famine, drought, or flood. Temporary migration suggests a short-term move, wherein people pull up stakes for a denned period and retrace their steps after some months or years. This article, however, examines migration as the action of individuals who appear to have left their former homes permanently.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 8 , fall 1992 , pp. 49 - 65
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1992

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