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

• Pubblicazione: [Pretoria, South Africa], : Idasa Pub., 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8096
• Soggetto topico: Migrant labor - Africa, Southern; Migration, Internal - Africa, Southern; Unemployment - Social aspects - Africa, Southern
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Southern Emigration and immigration
• Altri autori: CrushJonathan <1953-> FrayneBruce
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Surviving on the move
• ISBN: 9786612869112; 9781282869110; 1282869116; 9781920409364; 192040936X; 9781920409357; 1920409351; 9781920409142; 1920409149
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963697003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II