Surviving on the move : migration, poverty and development in Southern Africa / eds, Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crush, Jonathan, 1953-

Frayne, Bruce.

Southern African Migration Project.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant labor--Africa, Southern.

Migrant labor.

Migration, Internal--Africa, Southern.

Migration, Internal.

Unemployment--Social aspects--Africa, Southern.

Unemployment.

Africa, Southern--Emigration and immigration.

Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Pretoria, South Africa] : Idasa Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the collapse of apartheid, there have been major increases in migration flows within, to and from the Southern African region. Cross-border movements are at an all-time 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 emphasised by agencies such as the Global Com

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612869112

9781282869110

1282869116

9781920409364

192040936X

9781920409357

1920409351

9781920409142

1920409149

OCLC:

741350471