South Africa and Migration
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- The likelihood of future brain drain from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland to South Africa
- J. Crush; E. Campbell; T. Green; J. Crush; E. Campbell; s. Nangulah / Southern African Migration Project, 2007
- How do tomorrow’s skilled professionals in small countries such as Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland view life in their own country? How satisfied are they with conditions and prospects at home? What comparisons do they m...
- Receipt of remittances improves school enrolment in South Africa
- Y. Lu; D.J. Treiman / California Center for Population Research, USA, 2007
- In South Africa, black people are much more likely to migrate for work and to send remittances home than any other group. This paper studies the effect of those remittances on black children’s schooling, using data from househol...
- Migration can have positive developmental impacts: the Southern African case
- V. Williams / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006
- The migration of persons across international boundaries in search of better opportunities or as a result of war, conflict and political instability has risen substantially. This paper points out that this movement of persons signific...
- Documents human rights abuses against South African migrant workers
- Human Rights Watch, 2007
- This report documents the human rights abuses encountered by migrant workers in South Africa. The report highlights the situation in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces where both documented and undocumented foreign farm workers may have...
- Discrimination and sustainable livelihoods in South African cities
- L. Landau / Southern African Migration Project, 2005
- This document explores the challenges that discrimination based on nationality or country of origin poses for the sustainable development of South African cities. Migration and urbanisation have created tensions among residents of Sou...
- Guide for sending money back to South Africa
- Sending Money Home?, 2006
- This site and accompanying leaflet is aimed at people wanting to send money to South Africa from the UK. They aim to help non-resident workers to compare financial services and choose the right deal by providing a range of products an...
- Combating the "brain drain" of healthcare professionals from developing countries
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
- This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions that are being taken to combat the problem of developing countries losing healthcare professionals through migration to wealthier countries. The loss of trained hea...
- How health worker migration affects quality of care in Africa
- G. Awases; A. Gbary; J. Nyoni; R. Chatora / Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organisation, 2004
- This report, published by the WHO Regional Office for Africa, examines migration of health professionals in six African countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe) during 1991-2000. It finds that the number...
- Local management of health services needed to address international migration of health workers
- D. Sanders; B. Lloyd / Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2005
- This chapter, from the South African Health Review 2005, reviews human resources for health in South Africa from an international perspective. It highlights the vast inequities in global and regional distribution of health workers and...
- Better data needed to track medical brain drain
- A. Hagopian; M. Thompson; M. Fordyce / Human Resources for Health, 2004
- This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained ...
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