Their landlessness and poverty in southern Mexico forced them to follow the promise of opportunity in the north, where they continued their struggle to feed their families, in fields thousands of kilometers from home.
Brazil's military rulers saw the region as a safety valve for the overpopulation, landlessness and poverty in the country's crowded coastal region; they also feared that a thinly inhabited Amazon was an invitation to foreign invaders.In their attempt to give "the land without people to the people without land", the authorities colonised the region and built roads and schools.
More than 80,000 Hondurans now reside in New Orleans in large part because of global policies, including those of the U.S. government, that have resulted in high levels of poverty, landlessness, and violence.
The Vietnamese government has tried to reduce the rate of land consolidation in the country - a key cause of landlessness - by imposing quotas on agricultural land use and limiting land use durations since the 1993 Land Law (Government of Vietnam 19932003) was introduced.
Landlessness - for a man whose family owns huge tracts of land in different parts of Kenya, Mr Kenyatta will be under a lot of scrutiny to see how he tackles the touchy issue of land ownership.
Meanwhile, in northern Uganda, in parts of Lango and Acholi sub-regions, there was no landlessness since land was communally owned through the clan system with no land transactions allowed (Tosh 1978).
He broaches the novel in quirky thematic fashion, with gracefully written compact essays on topics like landlessness, chowder and sharks.
"In Nigeria, the drying up of Lake Chad and coastal erosion at the other end of the country has pushed the population into a smaller space, creating poverty, landlessness and increasing conflict".
Landlessness is a huge problem all over the world.
Prosperity muted African protest in the early years of federation, although dissent mounted in the impoverished reserves of Southern Rhodesia, where disaffection was fueled by attempts to restructure peasant production at a time of growing landlessness and congestion on inferior land.
