South Africa and Migration
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- Regional migration regime: can it work in southern Africa?
- J. Crush; V. Williams / Southern African Migration Project, 2004
- This paper argues that the development of a regional temporary worker’s regime is needed in southern Africa if integrated regional development is to succeed. Since there is currently no workable regional labour migration regime a...
- Migrant labour in Gauteng Province, South Africa
- M. Oosthuizen / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2005
- This study aims to quantify and describe migration to and migrant labour in Gauteng Province, South Africa, with a view to gaining some insight into special challenges that in-migrant households may present. Based on an analysis of th...
- Understanding the links between the Zimbabwean diaspora and home
- A. Bloch / International Organization for Migration, 2005
- This study aims to understand the skills base, transnational links and interest in contributing to development of Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The report finds strong linkages with Zimbabwe and other Zimb...
- Helping older people who care for grandchildren orphaned and affected by AIDS
- Fiona Clark; Caroline Halmshaw / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- An estimated 13 million children under the age of 15 have already lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A further 40 million children will lose their parents within the next 10 years. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic hits families in A...
- Impacts of teacher migration
- A. Sives; W.J. Morgan; S. Appleton / Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham, 2004
- This paper highlights the importance of the role of teachers in developing countries not only as educational leaders, but also in recognising their contribution to wider community and national development. The paper argues that the mi...
- Understanding old age and poverty in South Africa
- Julian May / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- South Africa has one of Africa’s most rapidly ageing populations. Of those aged 50 or over, 25% are chronically poor. Compelled to continue productive and reproductive activities well into old age, the older poor fulfil an import...
- Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?
- Armando Barrientos / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable,...
- Emigration and immigration: the South African figures
- J-B. Meyer; M. Brown; D. Kaplan / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000
- What are the true dimensions of migration and the brain drain in South Africa? The accuracy of the official statistics on the extent of emigration from South Africa, particularly skilled people, has been increasingly questioned by jou...
- South Africa's new immigration policy is "discrimination by default"
- B. Dodson / Southern African Migration Project, 2001
- This paper draws attention to the need for a gender analysis of the South African government’s proposed new policy on international migration, by identifying a number of areas of implicit gender discrimination. Such “discrim...
- Losing our minds: skills migration and the 'brain drain' from South Africa
- J. Crush; D. McDonald; V. Williams; R. Mattes; W. Richmond; C.M. Rogerson; J.M. Rogerson / Southern African Migration Project, 2000
- The brain drain from South Africa is unlikely to slow over the next decade, and that black South Africans are as likely to leave as white South Africans. Is it possible that skills emigration is being offset by a proactive immigration...
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