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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963697003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786612869112

9781282869110

1282869116

9781920409364

192040936X

9781920409357

1920409351

9781920409142

1920409149

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CrushJonathan <1953->

FrayneBruce

Disciplina

304.8096

Soggetti

Migrant labor - Africa, Southern

Migration, Internal - Africa, Southern

Unemployment - Social aspects - Africa, Southern

Africa, Southern Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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