The Green Revolution drove Punjab’s large labor migration.

Evidence

My ethnographic fieldwork focuses on the narratives of migrants from the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Punjabis represent a large contingent of contemporary labor migration from Pakistan, largely due to the e√ects of the Green Revolution that dramatically transformed agricultural production in the country, and in South Asia generally, in the mid-1960s. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 924

Categorization

• SEED: Green Revolution mechanization as a push factor for labor emigration is a concrete, under-reported causal story — a possible article angle on how agricultural modernization displaces farm labor into Gulf or Western circuits.
• XREF: connects to: The Green Revolution’s yield gains depend on monocultures that destroy local farming knowledge. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1422