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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959539203321

Autore

Crush Jonathan <1953->

Titolo

Migration, remittances and 'development' in Lesotho / / Jonathan Crush ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cape Town, : Southern African Migration Programme, 2010

ISBN

9786612869136

9781282869134

1282869132

9781920409425

1920409424

9781920409418

1920409416

9781920409296

1920409297

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

Migration policy series ; ; no. 52

Disciplina

304.8096885

Soggetti

Emigrant remittances - Lesotho

Migrant labor - Lesotho

Lesotho Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; TABLES; FIGURES; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; METHODOLOGY; PAST MIGRATIONS; CHANGING PATTERNS OF MIGRATION SINCE 1990; INCREASED CROSS-BORDER MOVEMENT; DECLINING MINE MIGRATION; FEMINIZATION OF MIGRATION; EXPANSION OF INTERNAL FEMALE MIGRATION; BRAIN DRAIN TO SOUTH AFRICA; HIV/AIDS AND MIGRATION; MIGRANT DESTINATIONS; PURPOSE OF JOURNEY; SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES; COMMERCIAL FARMS; DOMESTIC WORK; IRREGULAR MIGRATION; VOLUME AND TYPE OF REMITTANCES; REMITTANCE CHANNELS; USE OF REMITTANCES; GENDER AND REMITTANCES; REMITTANCES AND POVERTY REDUCTION

REMITTANCES AND AGRICULTUREREMITTANCES AND SMALL BUSINESS



DEVELOPMENT; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; ENDNOTES; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between migration, development and remittances in Lesotho has been exhaustively studied for the period up to 1990. This was an era when the vast majority of migrants from Lesotho were young men working on the South African gold mines and over 50 percent of households had a migrant mineworker. Since 1990, patterns of migration to South Africa have changed dramatically. The reconfiguration of migration between the two countries has had a marked impact on remittance flows to Lesotho. The central question addressed in this report is how the change in patterns of migration from and

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911011355503321

Titolo

ArchipieĢlago

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[La Paz], : SOIPA, Sociedad Impresora de Papeles

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Latin America Politics and government Periodicals

Latin America History Periodicals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico