Migration from Malawi to South Africa a historical and cultural novel / Harvey C. Chidoba Banda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chidoba Banda, Harvey C., 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malawians--South Africa--Social conditions.

Malawians.

Foreign workers, Malawi--South Africa--Social conditions.

Foreign workers, Malawi.

Migrant labor--South Africa--Social conditions.

Migrant labor.

South Africa--Emigration and immigration.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

Summary:

Since the discovery and exploitation of minerals like gold, diamond and copper in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Malawi has played the role of a labour supplier. Malawians were attracted by the relatively higher wages obtaining in the South African mines up to the period of the decline in mine migrancy at the end of the 1980s. Following this decline, a cross-section of Malawians continued to emigrate to South Africa to seek various jobs in the burgeoning informal sector and also for trade purposes. Migration from Malawi to South Africa sheds light on the problems that labour migrants and traders encounter as they are 'toing' and 'froing' between Malawi and South Africa in pursuit of their respective goals. It shows that migration, which initially was exclusively done for wage employment, is becoming more complex by the day. This is a result of the infusion of elements of commercial migration, smuggling and human trafficking. The book advances the argument that the numbers of migrants to South Africa increased in the post-1994 period partly as a result of mal-administration by the successive democratically-elected governments in Malawi. This development weakened Malawi's otherwise promising economy and impoverished the rural masses. The book 'sees' forlorn hope in the future of labour migrants and traders, unless the Malawi Government starts to genuinely have the welfare of the populace at heart! The book is relevant and accessible to policy-makers, university and college students interested in migration studies, general readers and migrants, themselves

Contents:

An overview of labour migration from Malawi

Of migrants' journeys : traders' and labour migrants' experiences

Institutionalized corruption

Of migrants' and traders' stay in South Africa

Of Malawian culture abroad

The failed role of the state

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956764341

9956764345

OCLC:

1025272775