ISBN:
9781920409142
,
1920409149
,
9781920409364
,
192040936X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 242 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
DDC:
304.8096
Keywords:
Migrant labor Africa, Southern
;
Migration, Internal Africa, Southern
;
Unemployment Social aspects
;
Africa, Southern
;
Migrant labor
;
Migration, Internal
;
Unemployment Social aspects
;
Migration, Internal
;
Unemployment ; Social aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
Migrant labor
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Electronic books
;
Africa, Southern Emigration and immigration
;
Africa, Southern
;
Africa, Southern Emigration and immigration
;
Southern Africa
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the collapse of apartheid, there have been major increases in migration flow within, to and from the Southern African region. Cross-border movements are high across the region and internal migration is at record levels. The implications of greater mobility for areas of origin and destination have not been systematically explored. Migration is most often seen as a negative phenomenon, a result of increased poverty and the failure of development. More recently, the positive relationship between migration and development has been emphasized by agencies such as the Global Commission on International Migration, the Global Forum on Migration and Development, The United Nations Development Programme and the African Union. The chapters in this publication are based on primary research and examine various facets of relationship between migration, poverty and development, including issues often ignored in the migration-development debate like migration and food security and migration and vulnerability to HIV. The book argues that the development and poverty reduction potential of migration is being hindered by national policies that fail to recognize and build on positive aspects and potential of migration. These studies show migrants are often pushed to the margins where they are forced to "survive on the move". Their treatment violates labor laws and basic human rights and compromises the potential of migration as a means to create sustainable livelihoods, reduce poverty and food insecurity, mitigate the brain drain and promote productive use of remittances. The editors show that migrant lives and livelihoods should be at the center of international African debates about migration, poverty and development--Publisher's description
Abstract:
Surviving on the move / Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne -- Restless minds: South African students and the brain drain / Robert Mattes and Namhia Mniki -- Medical migration from Zimbabwe in the post-Esap era: magnitude, causes and impact on the poor / Abel Chikanda -- Discrimination and development? Migration, urbanization, and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa's forbidden cities / Loren B. Landau -- Lodging as a migrant economic strategy in urban Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- Migration and the changing social economy of Windhoek, Namibia / Bruce Frayne -- Migrants, urban poverty and the changing nature of urban-rural linkages in Kenya / Samuel O. Owuor -- Remittances and development: the impact of migration to South Africa on rural livelihoods in southern Zimbabwe / France Maphosa -- Migration and development in Mozambique: poverty, inequality and survival / Fion de Vletter -- Poverty, gender and migrancy: Lesotho's migrant farmworkers in South Africa / Theresa Ulicki and Jonathan Crush -- Anxious communities: the decline of mine migration in the Eastern Cape / Zola A. Ngonini -- Worlds of work, health and migration: domestic workers in Johannesburg / Natalya Dinat and Sally Peberdy -- Risk amplification: HIV in migrant communities / Prerna Banati.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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