Contemporary Migration to South Africa
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Contemporary Migration to South Africa

A Regional Development Issue

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Contemporary Migration to South Africa

A Regional Development Issue

About this book

This book is a call to rethink migration regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates are devoted almost exclusively to border control and policing; they pay only lip service to local and regional developmental strategies. This volume takes a different approach. Its contributors are scholars who are convinced that empirically based policy making stands a better chance of succeeding than untested preconceptions that risk reproducing recipes that have failed elsewhere. The book is therefore strong on empirics, providing a wealth of original data. It also reframes existing approaches and reexamines secondary data from fresh perspectives. Although the focus remains South Africa, the book reflects South Africa's regional role and draws on data from across the Southern African Development Community (SADC). This book broadens the 'migration' agenda beyond the boundaries of migration studies and migration policy silos. This book is intended to become a resource for a range of audiences in Southern Africa and the continent.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Contributors
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Overview
  7. Introduction Migration to South Africa: Regional Challenges versus National Instruments and Interests
  8. 1 Reforming South African Immigration Policy in the Postapartheid Period (1990–2010)
  9. 2 The Role of Skilled Labor
  10. 3 Mobility and Municipalities: Local Authorities, Local Impacts, and the Challenges of Movement
  11. 4 Migration Control, Documentation, and State Transformation
  12. 5 Migration and Health in South Africa: Implications for Development
  13. Appendix A Immigration Legislation and Policy in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community, 1986–2010
  14. Appendix B How Many Are They? Migration Data Collection Issues
  15. Appendix C Migration Statistics for Southern Africa
  16. Appendix D Urbanization in Africa, 1950–2010
  17. Index
  18. Boxes
  19. Figures
  20. Maps
  21. Tables