Introduction - migrant workers and their role in rural change, Arjan de Haan and Ben Rogaly; Fulani on the move - seasonal economic migration in the Sahel as a social process, Kate Hampshire; migration, livelihoods and institutions - contrasting patterns of migration in Mali, Arjan de Haan et al; brokered livelihoods - debt, labour migration and development in tribal; western India, David Mosse et al; seasonal migration and welfare/illfare in eastern India - a social analysis, Ben Rogaly et al; migration and livelihoods in historical perspective - a case study of Bihar, India, Arjan de Haan; daughters and displacement - migration dynamics in an Indonesian transmigration area, Rebecca Elmhirst; gender, migration and multiple livelihoods -cases from eastern and southern Africa, Elizabeth Francis.