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



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Autore: Crush Jonathan <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Migration, remittances and 'development' in Lesotho / / Jonathan Crush ... [et al.] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cape Town, : Southern African Migration Programme, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (98 p.)
Disciplina: 304.8096885
Soggetto topico: Emigrant remittances - Lesotho
Migrant labor - Lesotho
Soggetto geografico: Lesotho Economic conditions
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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ISBN: 9786612869136
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Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910959539203321
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Serie: Migration policy series ; ; no. 52.